Plato Quotes
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.
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I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
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As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.
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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
