Sophocles Quotes
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An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I don't eat red meat.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.
