Sophocles Quotes
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
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Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.
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You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
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You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.
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All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.
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My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.
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This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
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A building or a town will only be alive to the extent that it is governed in a timeless way. It is a process which brings order out of nothing but ourselves; it cannot be attained, but it will happen of its own accord, if we will only let it.
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The Germans argue - and I can fully understand them - that the euro countries must surrender their sovereignty, because that is the only way to implement budget discipline in a fiscal union.
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Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.
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I'm a cheap date.
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If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side There's a roof above and good walls all around You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house 'cause you're my home.
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The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
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Whenever a car would come down the road, my mum would tell us to hide 'or else the welfare man would take you away.'
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
