Sophocles Quotes
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
Quotes to Explore
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The migration wave can be stopped.
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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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I'm in good shape.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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I'm not really the sex symbol type.
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I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.
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I think an analogue synth is an extension of the natural world.
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For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.
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Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!
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English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
