Solon Quotes
If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
Quotes to Explore
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
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I think most documentaries are too long.
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Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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We all have things that limit us and that challenge us. But really, our real limitations are the ones we believe.
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If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.
