Archilochus Quotes
You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I'm very happy being attorney general.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.
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There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.
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I think it’s very clear to any of us that society wants a different energy solution. Much is made of the difference between the east and the west and the rich and the poor, but no matter where I travel in the world people want clean, reliable, affordable energy.
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You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.
