Sophocles Quotes
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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A season is a season, regardless of the number of games.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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I don't even need to know - if you have something to prove to your old boss or your dad or your third grade teacher or yourself, it doesn't matter. You need that hustle and that fire, and I don't care where it comes from.
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Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
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Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
