Socrates Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spirituality but don't talk about it openly.
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I couldn't handle the pain and confusion surrounding my dad's divorce, and I was having a hard time balancing being a teenager with pursuing two different grown-up careers.
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It's a beautiful drive across the United States. It's so interesting. I'm a proud Canadian, and there are so many beautiful parts of Canada, but the United States also has incredible diversity in its landscape.
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Strong families are vital to strong societies.
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Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
