Plato Quotes
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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I'm just trying to get the best jump I can. If he tells me to go, I'm going.
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As an actor, I know immediately if I'm saying a word that doesn't feel right coming out of my mouth, and I know how to change it. But as a director watching something, or even as a writer reading a script, sometimes it's not always clear what needs to be fixed.
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I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.
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. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
