George Eliot Quotes
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.
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I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
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My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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Death is just life's next big adventure.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
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I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
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Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds ...
