Socrates Quotes
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.
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I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
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Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.
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Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Not I, but the city teaches.
