Plato Quotes
Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
Plato
Quotes to Explore
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
J. G. Ballard
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza
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There always have been funny women.
Vanessa Bayer
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There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.
Ram Shriram
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
Abbi Jacobson
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.
R. J. Cutler
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As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
Zach Roerig
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Chorus: We must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
Kathy Najimy
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Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
Kate Spade
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To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States. Let them cherish it, too, for the sake of those who, from every clime, are daily seeking a dwelling in our land.
George Washington
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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Naomi Wolf
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Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.
Plato
