Plato Quotes
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
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For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.
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The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.
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The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
