Sophocles Quotes
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A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
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There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
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I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.
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I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn't realize that me being such a people-watcher was even a gift at all.
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There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.
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One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.
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The perception a lot of folks have of the Clintons, even folks who are Democrats, see the Clintons as bending the rules.
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The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.
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I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.
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If we can make HIV testing a normal part of looking after your health, we can truly envisage an AIDs-free future in the U.K.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
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Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
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Whatever happens in life can happen on the stage, but as a comedian you should always be clear what your target is. It's fine to be gratuitously tasteless if that's what you are intending to do. It's that old line: I don't defend what a comedian might say but I defend to the death his right to say it.
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Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find.
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Whoever thinks... that the European economy can be competitive without economic cooperation with Russia, whoever thinks that energy security can exist in Europe without the energy that comes from Russia, is chasing ghosts.
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
