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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It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.
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The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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The minutes are a very important event today, with any adjustment suggesting that the peak in rates is close, as we believe it is, seen putting the dollar under further pressure.
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The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
