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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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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A lot of people thought you couldn't be a top-level athlete as a vegan, but people like Mac Danzig and Jake Shields are proving that's wrong. And it's better for me as a performer.
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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 believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.
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You'd be surprised how self-conscious a lot of women are. That's something I've witnessed firsthand.
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I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
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My abiding theme is separations.
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Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
