Plato Quotes
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.
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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've always wanted to release records in America. That's where I believe the music belongs, and the style and the eclectic musical mix that we put together kind of belongs here.
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The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
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Sir, your ideas are incorrect in every possible respect.
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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
