Greeks Quotes
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Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It`s almost always the wrong response.
Larry Summers
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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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If I could talk to Alexander, I`d ask him why he married Roxane. But the Greeks did have a regard for women: Six of the 12 gods are women, after all. Marrying her pissed off all of his men, but he didn`t care, he was making a point.
Oliver Stone
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What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
Edward Bond
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can`t even think straight.
Marilyn French
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We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that`s so striking is the whole area of politics.
Alan Zemaitis
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
Andrew Bozoian
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This is really sort of the time that Greeks come together, not so much as a recruiting event but just to help the freshmen move in.
Dave Campbell
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler
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The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Edward Bond
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
Edward Bond
Source: brainyquote.com
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The Greeks had a word for it.
Zoe Akins
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The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
Isabelle Huppert
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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
Angela Carter
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Should it be said that the Greeks discovered philosophy by human wisdom, I reply that I find the Scriptures declare all wisdom to be a divine gift
Anthony de Mello
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
Jan Peter Balkenende
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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Robert Kennedy
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke
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Great cultural myths deserve to be added to. We`ve done this throughout time immemorial, starting with the Greeks.
Michael Walsh
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Amber Valetta
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
Amitai Sandy
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Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It`s almost always the wrong response.
Allison Forsyth
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And it`s a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody`s heritage. It`s just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that`s everybody`s heritage.
Tony Randall
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
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Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil
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