George Eliot Quotes
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
Finn Wittrock
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
Queen Latifah
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
Nate Silver
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
Pat Gillick
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
Yann Tiersen
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
Patrick Swayze
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
Carine Roitfeld
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
Imogen Heap
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
O. Winston Link
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
Samuel Johnson
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
Kurt Cobain Nirvana
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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
Benjamin Graham
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I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
Benedict Wong
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
Mary Steenburgen
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I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
Jodelle Ferland
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You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and you'll feel like an idiot.
George Ezra
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
Oprah Winfrey
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I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.
Rachael Ray
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The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christs glorious body.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
George Eliot