George Eliot Quotes
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
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I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
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Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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There's various scenarios and interpretations about that urgency. I think first we have to get the facts. There are too many interpretations of the facts, and those scenarios could change based on the variables incorporated in those projections.
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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
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So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.
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'Bowling For Columbine' and 'Gus Van Sant's Elephant' really intrigued me. With 'Bowling For Columbine', I think Michael Moore just gave the perfect exploration of both the mass media interpretation of the event and going into the minds of these kids. These were messed-up kids who had hit a point of no return.
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I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.
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If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.
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It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
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You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.
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I don't see any point. I'm not sort of playing him as much as I am Glenn's interpretation of him, ... Both Joe and Allison's personalities act as springboards for Glenn's imagination. I don't think we are meant to ape them, or ape their lives.
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The fact that our traditional method of extracting doctrine from Scripture does not work well on narrative does not mean that Bible stories do not send clear messages. Instead, it suggests that the way we apply our traditional method of interpretation is inadequate because we are ignoring too much of God’s Word.
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
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There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
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Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
