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.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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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.
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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.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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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?
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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.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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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.
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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.
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.
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If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
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There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.
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It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American culture, although I still don't know anything about American football.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
