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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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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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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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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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
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It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.
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Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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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.
