Sophocles Quotes
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I see the most change in my body through exercise. They say diet determines your weight, and exercise determines your shape - I find that to be a pretty true statement. When I'm doing a lot of boxing, my hamstrings are really strong and my biceps. When I'm doing a lot of Pilates, I find that my core is really lean and my inner thighs.
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As the Holy Koran tells us: 'Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.' That is what I will try to do today - to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
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It certainly isn't like I'm reading scripts thinking I need to do something really different. But you want to stretch yourself and challenge yourself; that's really the major turnon when you're going into work.
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The characteristic poetic strategy of our time-refine your singularities-is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.
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Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
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True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills.
