Heraclitus Quotes
Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
Quotes to Explore
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.
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If you're going to break the rules, you have to live with the consequences.
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It's absolutely ugly, but unfortunately quite true of the world today; the more money you make, the more people tend to listen to you. If you're not quoted in Fortune or Forbes or the Wall Street Journal, then nobody listens. If you say something that makes a lot of money, whether what you said is true or not, people listen.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.
