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?
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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.
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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.
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.
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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.
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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.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
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When you're sick, who does the shopping or takes you to the doctor? Who do you talk to when you are upset?" In other words, who provides you with emotional and practical support? Some patients gave us surprising answers: "my dog" or "my therapist" – or "nobody".
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The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
