Sophocles Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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I don't do negative things.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.
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You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.
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I'm a huge fan of the '70s. I'm obsessed with the music of that time.
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We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
