T. S. Eliot Quotes
That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.
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"All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations"
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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
