Socrates Quotes
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Awards don't really mean much.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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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.
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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.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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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!
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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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.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.
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I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.
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I approach the movies I make as a movie-lover as much as a movie-maker.
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I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
