Socrates Quotes
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.
Quotes to Explore
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My hunger is always there.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
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Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
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You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.
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I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.
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Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.
