George Meredith Quotes
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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.
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Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
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I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.
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People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.
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What is more arrogant than honesty?
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
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We are struggling with racism, but racism is also alive and well in many other countries. And what we must overcome is racism being the cause of conflict. And what we need to recognize human beings as human beings; to award merit.
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Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
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A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.
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My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
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On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.
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I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
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Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
