George Eliot Quotes
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
Adam D'Angelo -
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster -
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
Sam Shepard -
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis -
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
Parker Stevenson -
At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
Daniel Baldwin
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
Barry Diller -
You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
Ian Rankin -
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger -
I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
Laura Bush -
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook -
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
Ovid -
I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.
Randi Weingarten -
I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
Yuri Lowenthal -
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
Earl Monroe -
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky
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It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
Mark Cuban -
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida -
Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
Joe Gibbs -
Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
George Eliot