Socrates Quotes
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm from Miami, I love it when we're out in the heat. When it's cold, I'm like, 'I'm never acting again,' because it's too freezing.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.
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'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.
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As you age, you start to realize that your emotions are in your hands and not someone else's. Once you put them in someone else's hands, that's when you give them the power, and you can't change it. Only they can change it.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
