Socrates Quotes
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Being evil is easy.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
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Ian McEwan is a very good writer; the first half of Atonement alone would ensure him a lasting place in English letters.
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Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
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’Who is Imelda?’ I come from a third world country, third class province. And I was orphaned-and look, Imelda made it. If Imelda made it everyone can make it. At this age and stage I feel so good I’m still ready to fly.'
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
