Sophocles Quotes

You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I don't really know that I'm aware of a lot of the inspiration and influence that I'm under, because I didn't have an extensive musically educational upbringing.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
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What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.