Plato Quotes
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.
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As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I don't attack innocent people.
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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
