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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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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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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It is so difficult if nobody in the family will guide you.
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If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.
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The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.
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Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly representative democracy.
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I can't just go to McDonald's after I'm done working out. I'm going to treat my body like it's the only body I'm ever going to have. I'm going to make sure it's strong and it's good. I'm really going to work hard 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.
