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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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
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Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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The number of saints in scores, Valiant men, golden their party. Before kings a career of praise, Warriors, no one was before them in demanding. In straits, in expanse, in every need, May they be a city to our body and our soul!
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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.