Sophocles Quotes
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
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Certainly,' said his mother, 'but first I want to know about the accident with your bicycle.' Well,' Phillip said, 'if you wanta really know. I was sitting in the basket of my bike ridin' down Mission Hill backwards singing 'Polly Wolly Doodle' and I saw the bread truck comin' and I guess I didn't turn soon enough and I ran into the Wallaces' iron fence and I caught my shoe on the pedal and my pants on a picket and I hit my eye on the handlebars and I don't know what else happened. But, boy, you should have heard the kids and that ole breadman laugh!
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I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.
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I have one favourite song, and that's 'Aayat' from 'Bajirao Mastani.'
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Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world.
