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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I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.
Muhammad Ali -
The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy, moreover, is likely to be perverse. High interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure, as well as inhibiting the expansion of capacity or the introduction of cost -reducing capital improvements.
William Vickrey -
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
Andrew Solomon -
People are always demanding proof. These are things that are not easily proved.
Art Bell -
That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Blaise Pascal -
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
Plato