Socrates Quotes

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • School
  • Future
  • Science

• Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Angels

• I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Never

• I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Very

• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

  J. Cole
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Hot

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Children
  • Remember

• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Good
  • Women
  • Real

• I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fight
  • Ring
  • Deadlines

• If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Game
  • Political

• On my wall, along with my favorite football players and baseball players, I had Marlon Brando and Sir Laurence Olivier. These were childhood idols.

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • Football
  • Childhood
  • Baseball

• I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Great
  • Power
  • City

• How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Work

• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

  

  Socrates
  • Childhood
  • Youth
  • Old Age