Socrates Quotes
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
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For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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The assumption of perfectly rational, maximizing behavior won out until recently in the art of modeling, not because it often reflects reality, but because it was useful.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
