Sophocles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.
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We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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And if you think my acts are foolishness the foolishness may be in a fool's eye.
