Socrates Quotes
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
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Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
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The things I like to do involve a lot of mental focus, a combination of physical and mental challenge. That is what mountain climbing is.
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
