Sophocles Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
Foster Friess -
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
Carine Roitfeld -
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
Walter Salles -
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
Camille Paglia -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
Manny Montana -
I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
Olivia Newton-John -
I like the idea of acting. Of all these things I've done, sometimes I think I've done well, and sometimes I think I didn't do well, but they are more cameos, and I come in and be crazy.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney -
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
Edmund White -
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill -
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
Ted Allen -
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Barbara Olson -
The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
J. C. Watts
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
Kate Winslet -
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Lionel Trilling -
It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.
Fred Wilson -
Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.
Barack Obama -
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
Sophocles