Pindar Quotes
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Quotes to Explore
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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They gave me 18 experiments to complete in my 10 days in the ISS. That's a lot. Everyone told me I didn't have to complete all of them, that it wasn't expected of me. But I knew everyone was watching me, so I gave up meals and sleep and completed all 18 experiments. It's a very Korean thing to do.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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Carol Guess's poems are sexy, intuitive, angry, and hopeful. These lyrical narratives measure the impossibly small distance between love and fear. They are a reminder that we're all vulnerable little vessels filled by the people who can break us.
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We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
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Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
