Socrates Quotes
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps. Of two dark moons.
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In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.
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Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
