Plato Quotes
Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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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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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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For me, I always try to make it to the final.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.
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We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
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There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.
