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 isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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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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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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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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As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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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.
