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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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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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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Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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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.
