Plato Quotes
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.
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There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very rewarding.
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
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I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I do test the boundaries, certainly, and break one or two of my own. Some people are mystified by it, but not me.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
