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Rita Wilson Actress

Greek

"My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood."

Mother Father Greek

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Stewart Brand Environmentalist, Author

Greek

"Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?"

House Block Greek

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter

Greek

"Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though."

Age Information Greek

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician

Greek

"I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!"

Greek Dutch Vex

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John F. Kennedy Politician

Greek

"Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness."

Strong Wrestling Greek

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist

Greek

"The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks are taking money from the state for doing nothing. So it's - it's an essentially corrupt society."

Pay Greek Doing Nothing

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

Greek

"Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat."

World Philosophy Greek

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Anne Carson Poet

Greek

"There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English."

Thinking Greek Always Trying

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Virgil Poet

Greek

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

Greek

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Rita Wilson Actress

Greek

"The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions."

Laughing Greek Meals

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian

Greek

"If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories."

Philosophical Morality Greek

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Madeline Miller Author

Greek

"When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision."

Vision Roots Greek

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist

Greek

"Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood."

Age Greek Boyhood

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Neil Gaiman Author

Greek

"'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies."

Firsts Doctors Greek

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter

Greek

"The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually."

Names Faces Greek

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!"

Book Greek Plato

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Joseph Heller Novelist

Greek

"All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive."

Thinking Alive Greek

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Barack Obama Politician

Greek

"The Greek people are entrepreneurial."

People Greek Entrepreneurial

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Barack Obama Politician

Greek

"We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better."

People Important Greek

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Barack Obama Politician

Greek

"I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people."

People Thinking Greek

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