Sophocles Quotes
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
Quotes to Explore
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I just want to do my job.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
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Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.
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Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.
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Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
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If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
