Socrates Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
Uta Hagen -
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
Carl Lewis -
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
Daniel Dennett -
I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Patricia Ireland -
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
Vash Young
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
Uday Kotak -
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie -
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
Sam Kinison -
It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
Daniel Craig -
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
Dakota Blue Richards -
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II -
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
Olivia Wilde -
I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
Taylor Negron -
I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
Dakota Fanning -
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.
William Jennings Bryan -
I've not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest of the world doesn't seem to care. I'm not sure whether they don't remember or whether they've just moved on from it. I was brought up in the glam era.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode -
If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.
Douglas Adams -
Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
Lake Bell -
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
Socrates