Plato Quotes
Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood...and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.
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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
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I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
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The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.
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Couldn't I just be a bit loony instead of gifted?
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The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
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When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.
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I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake on Earth as a drop of oil on my foot.
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This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.
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I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.
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Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.
