Homer Quotes
Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.
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But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.
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Think not to match yourself against the gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.
