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 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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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 speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I try to be athletic.
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People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
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I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.
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I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
