Sophocles Quotes
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.
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Retention of operational control of its air is important to the Corps' air-ground team, as air constitutes a significant part of its offensive firepower.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
