Socrates Quotes
The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
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I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.
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You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.
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When I was in films, we pretended to kiss but we didn't. It was considered unsanitary. Now they swallow each others' tonsils. It's disgusting.
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I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample.
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One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.
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The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
