Plato Quotes
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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I love acting.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
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The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.
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Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
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We need to let our people speak. We need to debate those issues and then we let the best ideas win, ... Right now, we believe the American people stand behind us. They want to see us preserve Social Security, they want us to keep the budget balanced and we're going to do our level best to do it.
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
