Socrates Quotes
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I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I am a Zionist.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.
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It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
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My sensibilities are like, 'I want it to be weirder.'
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I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
