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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.
I can play lots of nationalities: Greeks, South Americans, Arabs, all sorts.
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.
I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true.
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
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.
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
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.
I think that the Greeks were extremely ambivalent about the stories of Amazons: they found them both thrilling and rather daunting at the same time.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.