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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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a kind of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you suffered.
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By running away from the world no one can get peace. Anywhere you go the problems will go with you, because the problems are inside you and not outside. Outside is simply a projection of inside.
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It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
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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.
