Socrates Quotes
I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
Quotes to Explore
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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I've been lucky enough to kiss three James Bonds on screen: Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby and Daniel Craig.
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Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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I've never seen a film get away completely unscathed like I have 'Animal Kingdom.' There's not a single bad review that I've read of it yet; all through Sundance, all it got was high praise.
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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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Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
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I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.
