Sophocles Quotes
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All mankind love a lover.
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The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.
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I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
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I'm a lover of songs.
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I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don't hate Jews.
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The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
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My first fragrance as a kid was Tommy Girl. It was amazing. Wasn't it the thing to wear? And then I remember I stopped wearing it because it was literally like the whole classroom was filled with Tommy Girl.
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If you don't come from film family, it takes time for people to register you. When you don't come from film family, the connection with the audience takes time to build up; it happens eventually.
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I had a classic gym teacher in junior high who wore a weightlifter's belt all the time.
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If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.
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Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.
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After working with Woody Allen, sharing screen space with De Niro was a dream come true.
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We've gotten to play shows where I'm the headliner, so people are buying tickets to come see me, and that's when you really learn, 'Okay, who's listening to this music?' That and social media. But I couldn't feel luckier about the fan base that is starting to grow... People have just been super, super supportive and awesome.
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An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.
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Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour later, it affects that line. And the writer is the person who knows that immediately.
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You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.
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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
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Every father and son have conflicts.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.