Plato Quotes
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.Plato
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
Sam Rockwell -
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
Arthur Daniel Miller -
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
Tavis Smiley -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
Sam Altman -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz -
We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
Viktor Orban -
A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
Rabih Alameddine -
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt -
With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.
Nathan Deal -
Courtroom dramas can be boring.
Laura Linney -
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. Wilson
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
Karan Mahajan -
I know that government doesn't have the all solutions that real solutions do not come from the top down. Instead, the ways to end poverty come from all of us. We are part of the solution.
Kathleen Blanco -
America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
Hugh Evans -
Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Brooks Adams -
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
Plato