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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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.
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Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.
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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.
