Socrates Quotes
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
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It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.
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Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
