Socrates Quotes

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

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• Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

  

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• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

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• My real last name is Galifianakisburg.

  

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• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  

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• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  

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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

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• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

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• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

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• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

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• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

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• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

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• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

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• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

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• We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.

  

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• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  

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• You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

  

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• A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

  

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• The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Worship
  • Noblest