Plato Quotes
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.
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I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
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You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.
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I don't want to see a world in which women can communicate on Twitter, but their actual voices are not heard.
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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.
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Hunger can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.
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The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
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There is nothing more important in my life than my relationship with God and my faith. I have been so driven to my knees to pray for His guidance, for His wisdom, for His grace and for His Strength. I'm never going to tell anybody else how to live, I'm never going to preach to anybody else and tell them you must do that. But I sure would like to see more Americans give it a try and seek the guidance that our Founding Fathers sought and were able to then craft documents that allowed America to become the greatest, strongest, healthiest, most prosperous nation on earth.
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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
