Socrates Quotes
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.
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I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
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More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
