Plato Quotes
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
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Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.
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I really want my music to go mainstream.
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In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
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Tiamak closed his eyes to make a short prayer of thanks, hoping that the gods, like children, could be confirmed in good behavior by praise.
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'Little Night' comes from deep in my heart, and tells about the lengths people will go for love.
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I'm the curvy one of the family.
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Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
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In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.
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I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.
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My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
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I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.
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When I first moved out to L.A., I was still 17. The deal with my dad was that I would be able to live out there if I were to treat my acting classes like college classes. So when I moved, that's all I did: trained and auditioned.
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In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.
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Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.
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As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
