Socrates Quotes
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.
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Various justifications for lower capital-gains rates have been proffered over the years, none of them self-evident. But even conceding the wisdom of lower capital-gains rates, why should they never be taxed at all, even as they are passed from generation to generation?
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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
