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 write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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Price is nothing when it comes to fashion. It's all about the style.
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I'm not disappointed that I didn't get the record. I am very tired.
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I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
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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.
