Aeschylus Quotes
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For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
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There are pros and cons to everything but especially with what I have chosen. There are cons - the privacy level and everything that comes with it - but I feel there are a lot more pros. And I am doing what I love to do, so I am not complaining at all.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.
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You have to live life to the fullest. I don't want to slow down. I want the giving to be stepped up. So the older I get, the less I will be involved in the business side, the more in the philanthropic side.
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
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One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and could bring their interests to the attention of the Senate more broadly.
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Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.
