Sophocles Quotes
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To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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I can always go back to education.
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The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
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The truth is ever best.
