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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'Yes yes yes, later. For now I would ask you to proclaim next Friday from the mimbar in the masjid that the French are protectors of the faith and friends of the Prophet.'
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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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When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.
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I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Kissing don't last: cookery do!
