Socrates Quotes
Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
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We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
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Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them kids pretty fast.
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Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
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After going through that gubernatorial recount and its aftermath, you know confidence was shaken, ... So it's very important that we have good elections this time.
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Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?
