Plato Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
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Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
