Plato Quotes
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.
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It's unbelievable that Phil had to wait so long to get in to the Hall of Fame. Maris's home run record in 1961 has become something of a curse. He wasn't just a home run hitter, he could do everything-hit in the clutch, field, throw and run.
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For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.
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Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.
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Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.
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The reason I got into filmmaking was super naive: to change the world, you know? To really make the voices that we don't get to hear heard and the images and the stories that we don't get to see seen. I would like to normalize that.
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Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other
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Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.
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My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.
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There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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Man by nature wants to know.
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When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.
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Before all, be real. Only the truth gives to the word the Orpheus' Lyre power.
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It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.
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I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.
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Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.
