Plato Quotes
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
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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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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.
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Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.
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When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing.
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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.
