Aristophanes Quotes
Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Quotes to Explore
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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Radio is for driving.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of writing, because you can't look for praise from editors, readers, or critics. In other words, tips that are much easier to give than to take.
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.
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I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.
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I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.
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Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.
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Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'
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I love that I can demonstrate that it's OK to look and be strong.
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Insanity is a very high art form. If everyone was insane, I wouldn't be here!
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Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
