George Henry Lewes Quotes
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
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Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
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My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.
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We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.
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In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.
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No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
