Sophocles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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You cannot schedule death.
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It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.
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I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
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I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.
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I see a steady downward slope toward oblivion over the next three years. I'm pessimistic. Everything that's happened to me so far has been kind of flukey. I went into Twentieth Century because I wanted to work for Hal Prince. The part was too small according to my agent. I had been doing only leading parts, and he thought I should continue that. But the part was enlarged in rehearsal: songs were added, and it became more physicalized and showy. Then I won awards and got attention.
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Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
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I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
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When I say I get inspiration from my real life, I think of my real life as extending about 300 meters radius around me. So what I see in that area is what inspires me.
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False words do not bring forth fruit.
