Plato Quotes

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Three
  • Worth
  • Spear

• Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Heart
  • Football
  • Losing

• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Life
  • Think
  • Forever

• I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Earnest

• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Learning
  • Doing

• Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Ending

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Problem

• I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Proud
  • Involved
  • Simon

• And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Existence

• I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• Everyone thinks with 'Smash,' because it looks glossy and big, they think they're spending a fortune, and they think it's taking weeks to shoot.

  

  Raza Jaffrey
  • Everyone
  • Fortune
  • Spending

• What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Play
  • Right Way