Socrates Quotes
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
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Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.
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When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
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I have a habit of recording records very quickly - and not in a haphazardly way, not in a way where I'm not focused on details, because I'm a freak when it comes to that.
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Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.
