Plato Quotes
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.
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I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.
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Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
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I feel it's my responsibility to be able to take care of my family by living off the land. That's the ultimate goal for a man.
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The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.
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The failures of urban renewal reflect a failure at all levels of government to realize that people, not structures, really determine a city’s success.
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The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear. "How to saw people in half?" "That too." "Nice.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
