Plato Quotes
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Futurists falter because they belittle the power of religious paradigms, deeming them either too literal or too fantastic.
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Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.
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Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.
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I just feel like in society and in public, we have this unspoken expectation that we're all trying to meet. And there's so much pressure to try to fit in.
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Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain.
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Maximize the power of the beliefs that strengthen you and neutralize those that weaken you.
