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Here are the quotes with the word greek in them. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. — Arne Jacobsen All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. — John Ruskin What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire. — Nia Vardalos

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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

-Arne Jacobsen

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

-John Ruskin

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What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

-Nia Vardalos

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That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

-Jorge Garcia

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Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

-Cat Cora

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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

-Jackie Kennedy

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At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.

-George Papandreou

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It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

-Martin Scorsese

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When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

-George Saunders

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When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

-Cat Cora

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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.

-Bo Bennett

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I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

-Margot Kidder

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My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

-Cat Cora

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

-Vladimir Lenin

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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

-Karl Marx

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

-Samuel Johnson

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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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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

-Brendan Coyle

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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

-Theodore White

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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

-George Mikes

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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.

-William Scott

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My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

-Amy Sedaris

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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

-Lord Acton

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

-Diogenes

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

-Gilbert Murray

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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. — Arne Jacobsen
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. — John Ruskin
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire. — Nia Vardalos

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