Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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I don't think a song should be put in a category.
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I've always felt the need to pray...I would say that the office is so powerful that you need God even more.
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The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?
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If you are willing to do only what's easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what's hard, life will be easy.
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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
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An unexamined life is a life of no account.
