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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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.
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Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'
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If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
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Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
