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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Some actors don't want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing.
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War is the business of barbarians.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
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We've got so many ideas for songs and good riffs, and the more we work, the more we tour, we're getting more ideas, just more. It's just gonna get better and better. I can't see an end to it. It's like infinity rock and roll.
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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.
