Plato Quotes
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
Wendy Kopp -
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
Umberto Guidoni -
I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
Wadada Leo Smith -
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
C. C. H. Pounder -
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus -
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
Hanna Rosin -
'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
Yuna -
There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
Caitlyn Jenner -
The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
Yusuf Hamied -
I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
Maika Monroe -
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
Wendell Mayes -
My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
V. S. Naipaul -
With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
Ram Charan
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Both candidates for president talk about balancing the budget ten years from now. Even if they win, they won't be in office then.
Virgil Goode -
Prophecy is a poetry of change, social, political, moral, spiritual. It was with the prophetic model in mind that Shelley wrote of poets as the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Allegra Goodman -
I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.
Fiona Apple -
He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
Ralph Abernathy -
I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
Aaron Tveit -
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
Plato