Socrates Quotes
This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
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Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.
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We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.
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This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.
