Sophocles Quotes

The happiest life is to be without thought.

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• Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and over again until, in the director's eyes, you 'get it right' does not allow for very much creative freedom... In terms of sheer adrenaline, film has absolutely nothing on theater.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Freedom

• It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Help

• There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Glamorous

• The lack of work destroys people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Work
  • Destroys

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Baby
  • Bible

• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  

  Len Wein
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• I've got this reputation for shooting one take which is a wonderful reputation to have but it's hard to live up to.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Up
  • Live
  • Wonderful

• These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Fields
  • Pioneers
  • Antidepressants

• Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Real

• The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • War
  • Risk

• I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Done
  • Blood
  • Result

• I chose to deal with the underdogs on '1 Train.' I could've got the biggest superstars in the rap game, but why do that when you can let the young boys shine?

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Why
  • Game
  • Rap

• My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Emotional

• We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Money
  • Job
  • Demand

• On December 20, 2005, Judge John E. Jones III, appointed by President George W. Bush, with the strong endorsement of Pennsylvania's staunch conservative senator Rick Santorum, ruled for our plaintiffs in a superbly written 139-page opinion that shocked many observers.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Opinion
  • Senator
  • President George W. Bush

• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• The happiest life is to be without thought.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life is
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