Aristophanes Quotes
Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House.
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The body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.
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The principle of this art as Mondrian proposes his view on modern art is not a negation of matter, but a great love of matter, whereby it is seen in the highest, most intense manner possible, and depicted in the artistic creation.
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Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god? Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
