Plato Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Many people struggle to make hummus that lives up to their expectations at home, and recreating a favourite brand or the stuff from your local deli is almost impossible.
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She said'I'm young enoughI'm old enoughIn the city machineWhere industriesFill the fish full of mercury'
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He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart.
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I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
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The players are coming to try every game, every weekend, so that the Manchester City people can be proud, and we will see what is our level to achieve our battles.
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Will I be a success? I don't know.
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Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me in on it.
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My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
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Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.
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Think'st thou there are no serpents in the worldBut those who slide along the grassy sod,And sting the luckless foot that presses them?There are who in the path of social lifeDo bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,And sting the soul.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.
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The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
