Sophocles Quotes
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
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My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
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Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
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'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
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That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
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Never talk when you can nod and never nod when you can wink and never write an e-mail, because it's death. You're giving prosecutors all the evidence we need.
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I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron.
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I did 'Christmas Carol' off and on through my teenage years, so I always had that dialect and that sound in my ear, which was so helpful. It became second nature.
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Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
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When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.
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I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
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To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
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Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.
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You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me. (Interview Magazine 2000).
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Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.
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I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
