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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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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Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.
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It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society.
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The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
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Music became my refuge and then my salvation.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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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.
