Euripides Quotes
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.
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Bodies devoid of mind are as statues in the market place.
