Socrates Quotes
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'
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Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.
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'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'
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All thinking begins with wondering.
