Sophocles Quotes
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick deWitt
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
Patrick Collison
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
Olivia Williams
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
Yukio Mishima
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I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.
Douglas Wilson
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I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn't realize that me being such a people-watcher was even a gift at all.
Jason Mitchell
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There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
Brian Schmidt
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
Katherine Anne Porter
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The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules.
David Fahrenthold
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The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.
David Crystal
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I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.
Debra Winger
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If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.
David Furnish
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
A.M. Homes
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Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
Joanne Rowling
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
Virginia Woolf
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The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in despair; The breath of the morning is flinging A magic on blossom and spray, And cockneys and sparrows are singing In chorus on Valentine's day.
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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Corporate Social Responsibility is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or because people are forcing us to do it because it is good for our business.
Niall FitzGerald
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Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.
Jose Rizal
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
Sophocles