Socrates Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard -
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
Vik Muniz -
It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
Daisaku Ikeda -
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai Lama -
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung -
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
Viggo Mortensen -
Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
Octavia Spencer -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu -
People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
Zong Qinghou -
When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
Abraham Lincoln -
I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.
Kate Moss -
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren Bennis -
When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
Faith Hill -
Africa is the future.
Youssou N'Dour -
The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
Orlando Bloom -
Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
Madchen Amick
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It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.
Ree Drummond -
I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
Flume -
I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
Kate McKinnon -
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
This is...self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
Socrates