Socrates Quotes
Not by wisdom do they poets make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.
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I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.
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People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
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Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late
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I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
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Not by wisdom do they poets make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
