Plato Quotes

It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

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• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

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• I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

  

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• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

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• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

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• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

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• I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

  

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• And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

  

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• I was always in love with Judy Garland, and when I was growing up, I fell in love with Leonardo DiCaprio, of course.

  

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• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

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• I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.

  

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• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

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• So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.

  

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• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  

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• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

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• I have a couture body.

  

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• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

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• ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.

  

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• Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

  

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• When you are constantly around other professionals, you end up learning and growing.

  

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• Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually.

  

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• I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

  

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• Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on the impossibility of ever getting a state of complete and permanent satisfaction with what you have, and you become a pessimist. Dwell on the opportunity for endless growth and conquest which this same fact makes possible, and you become an optimist.

  

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• It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.

  

  Plato
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  • Desire
  • Wise