Socrates Quotes
Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.
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Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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I then remained in Berlin until Dec. 1938, spending my time between pictures at my villa on the Riviera.
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I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond Orwellian. The idea in '1984' that if you keep saying you're being attacked then you can get away with anything has come true.
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Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
