Socrates Quotes
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism – and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
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The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.