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Sophocles Quotes

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: greek
Birth: 496 BC - 406 BC

Topics

Tears Gold Possible Dead Would Cure

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

Revolution Be Different Always See

I hope people listen to the music. Don't write it off because there is a Christian doing it and it's been labeled that way, because if I'm honest with you, Christian rap for the most part has been corny.

Music Hope People Christian Doing

Our philosophy here, guys, is we're going to work as long as we have to to get the work done. I'm not one that wants the coaches to compete to see who can get in the earliest, who stays the latest, who passes themselves on the way into work in the morning.

Work Morning Philosophy Long Done

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

Music Together Solo Up Improvisation

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

Innovation Stock Market Values Market

I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.

School Stock Market Look Punishment

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.

Woman College Writing Thought Comedy

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Plan House Wishes Play Important

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

Me Think Play Know First Pretty

My lifetime dream has been to assemble and preserve the history of the Hollywood film industry.

Debbie Reynolds

History Dream Hollywood Industry

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

People Think Better Help You Naive

When I shop, I only do it when I really have to do it for something. I don't like to try on clothing like that - as much I love looking fly.

Love Fly Looking Try Clothing Only

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