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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Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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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.
