George Eliot Quotes
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
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For a long time, I've ranted against naming your startup community 'Silicon Whatever.' Instead, I believe every startup community already has a name. The Boulder startup community is called Boulder. The L.A. startup community is called L.A. The Washington D.C. startup community is called Washington D.C.
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I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.
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There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
