Socrates Quotes
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.
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Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.
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As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution.
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My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.
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It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
