Socrates Quotes
A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.
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I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.
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I don't find touring very creative. There's not much time to yourself with your instruments.
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A man can no more make a safe use of wealth without reason than he can of a horse without a bridle.
