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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Television was essentially my college.
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They kind of ran rampant on us. Stealing of home hurt.
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I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.
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Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
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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.
