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.Plato
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Edmund Phelps -
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.
C. L. R. James -
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.
Carine Roitfeld -
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.
Gary Bettman -
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.
Paddy Considine -
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
Malala Yousafzai
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
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.
Nargis Fakhri -
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
Sam Hunt -
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.
Edgard Varese -
I love acting.
Ed Asner -
All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
Marat Safin
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Quintilian -
But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
Rachel Hunter -
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.
Naomi Wolf -
The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
Imran Amed -
I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
Rachel Hunter
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
Algernon Sidney -
People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.
Christa Miller -
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.
Harry S Truman -
Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
Caleb Deschanel -
I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
Yvonne Strahovski -
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.
Plato