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'd turn on the lights, but they're blown. I'd offer you a seat, but there isn't one. I'd offer you a drink from the minibar, but there doesn't appear to be one.' 'It certainly is basic.' 'Basic? It's a bloody cell!
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With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the 'dangers' of windmills.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.
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Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
