Plato Quotes

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Business

• Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Good
  • Seriously

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• I studied Morse code.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Code
  • Studied
  • Morse

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Courage
  • Act
  • React

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Different
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mother

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Verdict
  • Conclusive

• I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • School
  • Know
  • Bright

• Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

  

  Frances Wright
  • World
  • Change
  • Speak

• I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Freedom
  • Religious
  • Expression

• Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good brief, then we would have won the freedom to marry 40 years ago. We must put the legal work next to the public education work next to the legislative work next to the organizing work, and that's what's brought us so far.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Education

• Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

  

  Plato
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Glory