Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A woman should be an illusion.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.
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The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.
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I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
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I am Providence.
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Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto, Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
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I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.
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Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.
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Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.
