Plato Quotes
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
Quotes to Explore
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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America is a meritocracy.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.
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That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.
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Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
