G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
