Sophocles Quotes
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
Quotes to Explore
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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I love girl power.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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Are zombies possible? They're not just possible, they're actual. We're all zombies.* Nobody is conscious - not in the systematically mysterious way that supports such doctrines as epiphenomenalism.*It would be an act of desperate intellectual dishonesty to quote this assertion out of context!
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
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My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
