Sophocles Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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Your first problem is relying on someone else's word. Always depend on yourself. No one will work as hard for you as you will.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
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Remember there is no success without hard work.
