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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Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of putting stuff on the record. I'm ready to see some real transformation and change.
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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
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I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
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I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.
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Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
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To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.
