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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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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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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I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
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If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
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I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].
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Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
