George Eliot Quotes
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
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In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
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I think copyright has its right to exist, absolutely, and I think that it's up to copyright creators to come up with new solutions that deal with the reality of the world we're living in today.
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Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
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CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
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I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.
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It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.
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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
