Plato Quotes
I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our writing will live in several places at once. That is both our curse and our charm.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
