Plato Quotes
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I have reservations about everything I do.
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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.
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At 22, I had something I loved to do - make pizza - and something I was good at: running a business.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.
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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
