Sophocles Quotes
Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
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It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
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Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.
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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
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So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!
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Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.
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Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.
