Aeschylus Quotes
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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We probably haven't seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans' safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us.
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It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?
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I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
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Forty years ago, my dad gave up a safe seat in Congress to run for governor and, finally, forty years later, we're gonna have a Larry Hogan in the governor's mansion.
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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
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Contrast is the dramatist's method.
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I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
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Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
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Kόμπασον θαρσῶν, ἀλέκτωρ ὥστε θηλείας πέλας.
