Sophocles Quotes

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I love to write.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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Turkey has worked alongside its allies from the beginning.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
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In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.