Plato Quotes
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.
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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
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It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.
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I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.
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The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.
