Socrates Quotes
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.
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So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed.
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to every one else.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.
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If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.
