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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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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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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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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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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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.
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I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.
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You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.
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What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
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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.
