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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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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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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If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.
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Looking back to 5-6, we talked at that time that if we lost another game we'd be out. Trying to win five straight is a tough deal, but our guys seemed to understand what it would take. We went back to the basics.
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Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.
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Love is the law, love under will.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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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.
