Sophocles Quotes
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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There is a great difference between a young man looking for a situation and one looking for work.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.
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We surrendered rather easily to yet another romantic notion: that meaning is to be found only in misery.
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When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.
