Sophocles Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Honesty will never break you.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
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So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?
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I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I am. You can't hold me down. And the church helped me do that. My family helped that. The whole issue of struggle is critical in my life. Resistance, finding ways to resist. That does not mean you do somebody in to get it. No, it means finding ways to be human in what you do, but making sure that you get it done.
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George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.
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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
