Sophocles Quotes

If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

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• If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Everyone
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• Reality is what you can count on.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Reality
  • You
  • Count

• If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Money
  • You
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• I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception for these. They're too delicious to count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Live
  • Doing
  • Count

• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pretty
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  • Rejection

• In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Me
  • Body
  • Films

• We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Public
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• Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Still
  • Count
  • Overconfident

• Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Character
  • Respect

• It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Writing
  • Church

• The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Quality

• It made absolutely no sense to me why Panther would ever join a super-hero team; he's not a super-hero, and the record shows he did a whole lot of nothing most of the time.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Time
  • Why
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• The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

  

  David Shields
  • Why

• I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Women
  • She
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• In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.

  

  Yvette Mimieux
  • Family
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• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Time
  • History
  • Political

• The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

  

  George A. Romero
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• When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Books
  • Library
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• A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Joke

• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

  

  George Ellery Hale
  • Earth
  • Astronomy
  • Squares

• Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Crowds
  • Emotionally
  • Energized

• The corporations are powerful only because we have allowed them to be. In theory, it is we, not they, who mandate the state. But we have neglected our duty of citizenship, and they have taken advantage of our neglect to seize the reins of government.

  

  George Monbiot
  • Government
  • Advantage
  • Theory

• If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

  

  Sophocles
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