Socrates Quotes

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
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At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.
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The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.