Plato Quotes
For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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The world is always in movement.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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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.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I have a theory that people tell you everything you need to know the first week you meet them. And often even on the first date.
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Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning.
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
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For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
