Sophocles Quotes
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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.
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I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
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... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.
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God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.
