Socrates Quotes
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
Quotes to Explore
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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Each and every time I went in for IVF treatments, I knew there was a bipartisan group of Congresswomen praying for me, and I was honored that the same group was there at my baby shower.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
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War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.
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I think that sometimes, when you're with the wrong person, you try to become what that person wants. You lose yourself and who you are, just a little bit, but that doesn't mean you can't get it back.
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Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
