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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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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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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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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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I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.
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People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
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When I'm at my best, I'm trying to destabilize myself and figure out new ways of approaching art as a provocation. I think I am at my best when I push myself into a place where I don't have all the answers.
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When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.
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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.
