Sophocles Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon -
I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
Rachel Platten -
My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
Adam Garcia -
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
Karl Pilkington -
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
Nancy Pearcey -
On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky -
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts -
I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
Daniel Boulud -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman -
Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
Brown Campbell
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta -
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
Dan Maffei -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas -
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
Adam Cohen -
With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
Aaron Ruell
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn Blur -
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
Nancy Werlin -
As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
Karen Abbott -
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Sophocles