Plato Quotes

Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

• Honesty
• Dishonesty
• Profitable

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• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

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• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

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• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

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• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
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• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
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• When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used to love this dude. He was on a TV show called 'Fridays,' and man, he was tall and lanky - and I was tall and lanky. I love physical comedy, and he was a physical comedian, and I said, 'Man, I love this guy.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

  

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• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never really a time to have a job. My mum went into Starbucks once and asked if they had a job for me, and they offered me one - but I never took it up because I couldn't fit the job in with school and cycling.

  

  Laura Trott
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• It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
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• One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• So I have people who tweet and ask me, 'You can't be this happy all the time. You can't be this cheerful.' Well, yes I am. From where I've come from and my family and what I see as real struggles in day to day life, through my reporting. I'm never going to look at challenges.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

  

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• Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

  

  Chief Joseph
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• I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.

  

  John Wells
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• Although I have been performing in all sorts of ways and roles since childhood, 'GoT' is my first proper venture onto the screen.

  

  Kristian Nairn
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• Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • People
  • Political
  • Leaving

• In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Honesty
  • Percent
  • Finished

• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  

  Plato
  • Honesty
  • Dishonesty
  • Profitable