Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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'm half an hour late, I'll come back tomorrow.
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My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
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I'm a horrendous golfer, though I do enjoy it.
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I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
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It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.
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My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.
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The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
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Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
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She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
