George Eliot Quotes
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
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When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
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I can't imagine working without and audience.
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Do I want to tackle a 230-pound guy who's running like a deer? Heavens no, no one in their right mind would. But there is something that drives me and compels me to stick my head in there and give it my best shot.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.
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Working out is my biggest hobby. It's my Zen hour. I just zone out.
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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
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Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.
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History is subjective. History is alterable. History is, finally, little more than modeling clay in a very warm room.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.
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I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
