Socrates Quotes
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
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There is a formula that allows you to write a decent song. But a song like 'You're All I Need to Get By,' it just writes itself.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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There is but one evil, ignorance.
