Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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I feel energized walking off stage.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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I wrote 'Despacito' with my guitar, but where you can tweak a lot is in the production.
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
