Socrates Quotes
It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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The world has become more diversified, with women becoming a real power of change.
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Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
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My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.
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A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. (p. 245)
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Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.
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It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.
