Euripides Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.
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One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
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We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.
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They could care less about the public. The public comes in third. Number one is keeping their power. Number two are the special interests, the people footing the bill. Finally, the public good might be third - if they can profit from it. If there's no profit, they could care less.
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Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.
