Sophocles Quotes
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I know there are thousands of images of me.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
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We all are humans first. There is no religion that defines us.
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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits.
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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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Courage takes faith in the knowledge that things will get better even if you don't know when or how.
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The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.
