Phaedrus (Gaius Julius Phaedrus) Quotes
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
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In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there's an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you'll never master it.
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I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
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To master the pride of defiant selfhood, that in truth is the highest bliss.
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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
