George Eliot Quotes

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

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• I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Life
  • Family
  • Surviving

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Think

• I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • World
  • Knows
  • Robert W. Chambers

• If you help a chicken out of an egg, most of the time that bird will die. If you help a moth out of a cocoon, it'll die because they don't go through that struggle and maturation. I can give you a fish for the day and you'll eat a day, but if I teach you to fish, you'll eat for a lifetime. Maybe even start a business.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Business
  • Help

• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Politics
  • Impact
  • Governments

• Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Simple

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Country
  • Father
  • Strong

• I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Think
  • Sacrifice

• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Never

• Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Ambitious
  • Ninja

• What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Energy

• I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Game
  • Popular
  • Price

• But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Competition
  • Lane

• You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Today
  • Magic
  • Bird

• To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • World
  • Energy

• People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • People
  • Power

• In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Between me and A.J. , we felt that our fans deserved something better than some half-assed VHS-video someone shot years ago with a lame angle or focus, and has nothing but a snow-covered screen. I see shit like that on eBay all the time, and fans deserve something better.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Focus
  • Fans
  • Screen

• Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

  

  George Eliot
  • People
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