George Eliot Quotes
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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I am an inventor of music.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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I'm afraid I might make a fool of myself over him. I'm not even sure he would notice if I did.
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Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.
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I'm the best in the world.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
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There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
