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Plutarch Quotes

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: greek
Birth: 46 - 120

Topics

Friendship Change Friend Shadow Need

My goal is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.

Jessica Chastain

Good Women Girl Think Powerful Goal

I moved back to Buffalo in 2009, and I had this moment where I wanted to have the best of both worlds. I wanted to be able to be in church and cook at home but then still get on a plane and fly back to New York and be this supermodel.

Home Moment Best New York Fly Back

People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.

Simple People Me Sweet Short Mouth

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Matthew Desmond

Poverty Debate Now Out Been Word

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

Work Good Stars Death People Rest

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

Family Friendship Patriotism Honor

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Thought Portrait Happen Got Would

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

Personality Perfection Me Striving

I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.

Life Learning Democracy Reading Talk

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

Jonathan Krisel

Change Process Look Why Always Just

Grilling grapes may sound crazy, but the smoky, blistered char they get from a few minutes on the fire gives them a deep, winelike character.

Character Fire Crazy Deep Sound May

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

Christopher Walken

Hope Kind Going Bing Bob Thing

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