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.
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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.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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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.'
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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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.
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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.
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
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You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.
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It would be fantastic to have the two top-ranked players in the world playing out of the same club.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.
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Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
