George Eliot Quotes
As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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WWE doesn't owe us anything.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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I don't complain.
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I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all. I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment.
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When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!
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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
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To be honest, I'm in love with denim. It hasn't been my go-to Lion Babe look, but it's very much my 'everyday Jillian look.' I am in denim every single day.
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As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.
