Socrates Quotes
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.
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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 think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
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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.
