Plato Quotes
A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
Olivia Hussey
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
Larry David
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
Warren Buffett
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
Carine Roitfeld
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
Walt Handelsman
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
Gary Numan
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Lance Loud
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
Jack Nicklaus
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
Victoria Abril
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Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.
Douglas Coupland
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Charisma defined As usual, the Greeks had a word for it. Charisma originated with an ancient Greek word meaning ‘gift’. The early Christians later used it to describe ‘gifts from God that allowed receivers to carry out extraordinary feats such as healing and prophesy.
Andrew Leigh
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I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.
Jennifer Coolidge
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When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.
Dan Aykroyd
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
Plato
