Plato Quotes
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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There are whole months at a time when my head is so full of ideas that I wake in the middle of the night and lie in the dark telling myself stories. There are also long, dark nights when I just know I'll never write another word: I'm finished, empty, a husk... Oh dear, yes, twitch, yawn, how I've suffered insomnia for my art.
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I am not a hypocrite.
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It's funny - some producers ask me, 'Man, how do you work on a Bieber record? That would kill my career.' I can work on any record there is as long as they are good records and you're pushing things forward.
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In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
