Sophocles Quotes
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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The American dream is about freedom.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and better and keep that audience. There was never a point where Michael was going to feel like, 'I've got to play the Nokia, and that's all I'm going to pull in is the Nokia.' That would not have been acceptable.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.
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The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.
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Apparently she's the only one who is happy with this bill.
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Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.
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Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.
