Sophocles Quotes
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'd have an automobile that is extremely lightweight because it is made of plastic, which is good because you'd need to carry it because it is made of plastic.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love." And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes. He closed the door in her face.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government.
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What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
