Plato Quotes
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato
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My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
Kate Fleetwood
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I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
Babyface
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If you put yourself in a place where you're having to work at understanding something, then you keep yourself awake to all possible choices. How the body will look like in the future, the ethics of the body: those are questions that really fascinate me. Let's get the dialogue going.
Wayne McGregor
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
Rainn Wilson
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It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.
Hans Hofmann
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Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.
Mao Zedong
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I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn't have a Cadillac. I didn't have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.
Leah Remini
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I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
Bjorn Lomborg
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian
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I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.
James McAvoy
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I am Sam. Sam-I-Am.
Dr. Seuss
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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato