Socrates Quotes
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I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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Ultimately, all our complaints are directed against God.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
