Greek Quotes
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The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom
Dave Barry
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn`t really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He`s not from another planet,...
Christopher Nolan
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The guys we were stealing from in The Wire are the Greeks. In our heads we`re writing a Greek tragedy, but instead of the gods being petulant and jealous Olympians hurling lightning bolts down at our protagonists, it`s the Postmodern institutions that are...
David Simon
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Then there was school. I wasn`t a great success: I was shy, not particularly clever, and dyslexic. But thanks to an English master called Quibble-Smith, who gave me a part in a Greek tragedy, I realised that I enjoyed getting into character - I could expr...
Anthony Andrews
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we`ve stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.
Emma Thompson
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That I survived the first film I did [The Silver Chalice (1954)] was extraordinarily good fortune. I mean, I had dogs chasing me down the street. I was wearing this tiny little Greek cocktail dress - with *my* legs! Good Lord, it was really bad. In fact, ...
Paul Newman
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But I always liked the Greek outfits. They were sexier than the Romans`, you`ve got to admit. And they didn`t wear sandals. They wore boots. So don`t call it a sword-and-sandal (movie), for Christ`s sake! It`s sword-and-boot, OK? [on `Alexander`]
Oliver Stone
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I have no Italian in me. I`m Cuban, Greek, Romanian, and Sephardic Jew, so I couldn`t get further from Italian. But I guess I`ve been adopted into that family, too.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
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President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous. (From "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992), March 9, 2001)
Jay Leno
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[on the making of Highlander (1986)] For the scene we did in the church there could have been a wonderful dialogue - "God, this doesn`t compare to the Greek Orthodox Church," or "I liked it better when they did it in Latin," or any type of thing. There`s ...
Clancy Brown
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Action films are an extension of Greek myths which have been around since Homer`s The Iliad. Everybody`s life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves. With an action film its ...
Dolph Lundgren
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You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.
Walter Matthau
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When I went to work I had nothing but my own Greek in my own hand before me to try to match with English in the blank lines underneath the Greek.
Robert Fitzgerald
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When I went to work I had nothing but my own Greek in my own hand before me to try to match with English in the blank lines underneath the Greek.
Robert Fitzgerald
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When I was a kid, I`d kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Olympia Dukakis
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What I wanted was to explore various different levels of the comfort-crisis aspect of the nation. It`s like Greek tragedy; [Bush and Stewart] are feminine and masculine versions of us. There`s humor in it, but I think their transgressions are most importa...
Karen Finley
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Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.
Robert Fitzgerald
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Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
Alison Adams
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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
Penelope Lively
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We have to preserve the event so my children and my kids` kids can go to the Greek Picnic. This is a Philadelphia tradition, and we don`t want it to end.
David Warren
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Voyage in Greek Cooking.
Ann Althouse
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This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one`s home and family.
Allan Gurganus
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There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
Al Ver
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There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.
Anne Hedges
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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
Robert Welch
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The Greek system would go down on the entire campus.
Michael Stanley
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The British system had requirements, including Latin. I`m not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
Andrew Ross
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The British system had requirements, including Latin. I`m not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
Andrew Ross
Keywords: are :: britain :: british :: but :: certainly :: curricula :: ever :: greek :: had :: in :: including :: kinds :: know :: latin :: learning :: mindless :: most :: not :: of :: positive :: repetitive :: requirements :: sort :: system :: the :: there :: think :: to :: too :: was :: where :: youSource: brainyquote.com
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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond
