George Eliot Quotes
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.George Eliot
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn -
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Edmund White -
I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
Daniel Espinosa -
I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey -
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
G. Edward Griffin -
I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
Ian Anderson
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky -
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Ovid -
I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
Carlene Carter -
All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.
Rachel Hunter -
An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber -
If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
Ed Rendell
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
Omari Hardwick -
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
Maeve Binchy -
You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
Adam Lambert -
I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
Taylor Swift -
I've had so many injuries.
Patrick Swayze
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
Ramez Naam -
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcolm X -
I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
Mandy Patinkin -
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
Natasha Trethewey -
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
George Eliot