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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I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.
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There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
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I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.
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In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
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Whoever is managing you, you want to play your best and do your best for your country.
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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.
