Plato Quotes
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
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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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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.
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Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged,
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It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
