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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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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 care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him 'better.'
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his 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.
