Euripides Quotes
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.
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I think the success of the 'Twilight' movies, not just the books, comes down to Stephenie Meyer.
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The people who run the international tests told us, 'the biggest predictor of student success is choice.' Nations that 'attach the money to the kids' and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.
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When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.
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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
