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.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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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.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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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.
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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.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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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.
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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.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.
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Greece could default on its debts and even exit currency bloc if it cannot deliver reforms.
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Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President.
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Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk song, the storytelling tradition in folk music. And so for years I wrote mostly story songs. I still do that, but as I've gone on, it's gotten a little more personal. I used to write mostly in the third person. I write a little more in the first person now.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
