Sophocles Quotes
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience.
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.
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Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.
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If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, is there? You'd just be a wolf, run around, try to catch rabbits or something.
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Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
