Plato Quotes
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
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Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
