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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Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?
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Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.
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And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
