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Allan Bloom Quotes

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: September 14, 1930 - October 7, 1992

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Easy Student Labor Now Become Only

I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.

Eye Think You Way Take Advantage

There's always something in Atlanta that's so far from people's comfort zone.

People Comfort Zone Comfort Atlanta

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.

Stefano Gabbana

Family Love Good Silence Love Is Me

I don't know where the ideas come from, and it's terrifying. They seem to be absolute flukes. When I was in my 20s, I'd walk around with a notebook all the time and make sure I wrote down anything that occurred to me. Now I'm just hoping that some sort of event will descend on me.

Time Walk Me Ideas Down Know

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Politics Bible True Will Over Radio

One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.

Me Proud Line Guns Because Bass

I don't do nonfiction anymore. Eventually, you just feel constrained by the facts. You want to go where the words take you, and people's actual lives don't always conform. And you can't know them that well.

Words People Facts Feel You Know

I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. In so many ways, we're always playing a form of dress-up - it's just a grown-up, much chicer version of it. It's nice to be able to be whoever you want to be.

Beautiful Think Feel You Nice Want

I loved singing something like 'I've Got My Eye On You' when it's really about the FBI. It turns a love song into something else!

Love Singing Song Eye Loved You

I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

Working Together Experience Together

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

Disappointment Comedy Nothing Subject

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Singing Accountant

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