Socrates Quotes

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

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The world is too violent right now.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I would love to do some theater.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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As long as I know that I give my best every time, I can sleep well knowing that.
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
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I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.
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We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.
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As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.
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Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.