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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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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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it’s probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.
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Number one house rule of pool: don't lose in your own house.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
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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.
