Socrates Quotes
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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When I was a little girl, I told everyone I was going to marry a very clever scientist and have ten children. I would always draw the children, and they included blond-haired twin boys whom I named Theodore and Frederick: Teddy and Freddy for short.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.
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I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
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My rookie year, he helped me so much. Him and Don Perkins, the fullback that was ahead of me. Perk helped me a lot. I told him one time, I said, "Perk, you're helping me? I'm trying to beat you out.” He said, "Walt, I want to go to the playoffs. I want to go to the Super Bowl. If you're better than me, you oughtta be playing instead of me.” But I never was better than him. If he hadn't retired, I'd still be sitting on the bench.
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Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
