Socrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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I'm a ready-shoot-aim kind of gal.
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I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.
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The writer studies literature, not the world.
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Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
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If you would seek health, look first to the spine.
