Socrates Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
Edmund White -
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow -
I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
Laura Mvula -
Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
Aaron Carter -
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
Val Kilmer
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
Patrick Wilson -
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow -
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
I live for the text. It's my job.
Ian Mckellen -
Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
Randy Forbes
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett Marden -
I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale -
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
Barry Mann -
Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.
Barry Bostwick -
Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
Imogen Heap -
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.
Carine Roitfeld -
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov -
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
William Shakespeare -
In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.
Samantha Shannon -
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
Flannery O'Connor -
Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
Socrates