Plato Quotes
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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I always wanted to be a mom.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
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When you're a mass-market writer, people think that you can just decide 'this happens, this happens, this happens', whereas with literary writers it's coming from their soul and their core. But with me it does come from my soul and my core, and my soul and my core often go AWOL, and then I've nothing to write.
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Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
