Socrates Quotes
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
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Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
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Nothing whatsoever, not even the existence of God to His lovers, can be proved, but that every man, if he is to live at all finely, must deliberately adopt certain assertions as true, and those assertions should, for the sake of the enrichment of the human race, always be creative ones. He may, as life goes on, modify his beliefs, but he must never modify them on the side of destruction. It may be difficult, in the face of the problem of human suffering, to believe in God... but if you destroy God you do not solve your problem but merely leave yourself alone with it.... A ghastly loneliness.
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The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
