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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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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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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Crack used to be called freebase when white rich people did it. Then it got sold in batches, and white rich people were still doing it, and it was still called freebase. And then all of a sudden this guy named Ricky Freeway Ross started making it and he happened to be black, and- everything is political- and, then it turned into 'crack.'
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Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
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Most people don't know who I am in the industry. I'm far from 'Conan' and 'Game of Thrones.'
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My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.
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I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
