Sophocles Quotes
You cannot know a man's life before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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I have all these nice clothes that I've bought over the years, and I never wear anything because, when you have a toddler, everything gets spilled, and they wipe their boogers on you, whatever. You end up shifting a little bit, and your values shift a bit, too. I don't care about that as much as I used to.
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When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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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.
