George Eliot Quotes
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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You've got these big studio films and these tiny independent films now. It's very much either/or. With the independent films, it's always a beautiful risk - it might never be seen. With the studio films, you're conforming to the formula of what's always been in place.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..
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We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
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Historically, this culture has come to identify lesbians as women who over time, engage in a range and variety of sexual-emotional relationships with women. I, for one, identify a woman as a lesbian who says she is.
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I think it's my nature to try and make original content, and that's what I've done, is just try and approach things in an original way, and do things differently.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
