Sophocles Quotes
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.
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My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
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The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
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The Rambo movies not only popularized the spitting image but also the equally incredible claim that hundreds of American soldiers missing in action were being held by the Vietnamese Communists for unspecified purposes.
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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
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The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.
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There are times when even justice brings harm with it.
