George Eliot Quotes
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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I'm constantly progressing. My style is changing every day.
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The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.
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Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
