Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
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The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
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The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.
