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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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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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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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with 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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Oooh, oh, how many eyesHave seen their dream?Oh, how many armsHave felt their dream?How many hearts, baby...Have felt their world stand still?
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
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I think the Shiites want a theocracy.
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
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'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.
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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
