Plato Quotes
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.
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There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
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Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.
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Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.
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You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
