Sophocles Quotes
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.
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How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
