Socrates Quotes
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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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During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.
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God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.
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The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
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You can't describe the feeling of being in love - when you meet someone who makes you a better person.
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I'm more interested in what I'm going to leave behind me than in making a big hit record. I've refined what I do for a long time. If getting better at it means it goes over the heads of those who only wanted to party, then so be it.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
