Sophocles Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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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!
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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.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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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.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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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.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
