Sophocles Quotes

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

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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.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
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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.

  

  Imelda May
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• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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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.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
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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.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
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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.

  

  Dan Kildee
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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.

  

  Valerie June
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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.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
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• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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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.

  

  Adam Jones
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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.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• If you fold your clothes in the formal spark of joy, you can actually make the joy last longer.

  

  Marie Kondo
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• I never looked at myself as the fat sister. Sometimes I would beat people to the punch and say, 'Oh I'm the fat, funny one,' because that's what people would say about me. But I never really thought that.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
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• When I moved to L.A. a few years ago, my sister hung out with a couple of people with big followings. I'd hang out with them, too, and eventually was tagged in a picture with Acacia Brinley, who does a lot on YouTube. She got me from, like, 6,000 to 17,000 followers over a couple of days.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
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• Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.

  

  James Surowiecki
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• It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music.

  

  Lisa Hannigan
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• Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

  

  Sophocles
  • Sister
  • Foolishness
  • Wickedness