Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.
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My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
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Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.
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It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
