Sophocles Quotes
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Sophocles
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
Lamar Alexander
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
Pat Buckley
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
Mandy Patinkin
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
Mahesh Babu
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
Hari Kunzru
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Harold Prince
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
Mandy Patinkin
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
Malcolm X
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I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.
Kelly Rowland
Destiny's Child
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
William V. Shannon
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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Lord Byron
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It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out, and the reviewer can't put it off indefinitely with sneers, although some neophytes might be tempted to try: "When in doubt, stick out your tongue" is a safe rule that never cost one any readers. But there's nothing strong about it, and it has nothing to do with the real business of criticism, which is to do justice to the best work of one's time, so that nothing gets lost.
Wilfrid Sheed
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Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
Joseph J. Ellis
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Sophocles
