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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What studies say the number one best way to start an exercise habit is to give yourself a reward that you genuinely enjoy.
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There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.
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For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'
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Is assassination only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?
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The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
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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.
