Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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Love is a state of being.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men; nay, it is vain to expect that strength of natural affection which would make them good wives and mothers. Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves.
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People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.
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It's an incredible thing when you are creating something in a moment with the other people on stage and with an audience, and you are all experiencing it together as it exists in that one night. It's a magical feeling.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
