Sophocles Quotes
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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Most of our songs are about relationships.
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Hawke," he said. "That's the word you need to be saying.
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I watched westerns when I was a kid, like everybody else, but I wasn't a total nerd or geek about it. I kind of fell in love with westerns heavily when I started watching Sergio Leone's westerns.
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A gentleman can never have too many bow ties.
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I always find cardio the most monotonous. Running on a treadmill shows me why hamsters are so crazy.
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People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
