#counts

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#counts #dedicated #ever #hollywood #i

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. ↗

— B. B. King

#black #blues #both #counts #having

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#always #another #because #been #box

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#as far as #between #billion #far #federal

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#counts #days #hour #i #i think

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#cause #counts #created #discourse #encouraged

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anything #bank #behaviour #both #children

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#body #counts #folks #shades #vietnam

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#double #had #missed #number #ones