There are many victories worse than a defeat. - George Eliot

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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller. '

George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

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All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

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We want to stay with the animatronics because it gives you such a wonderful feel of Chucky's movement. It feels like something that has been brought to life, as opposed to a smooth piece of animation.

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Virgil

None but himself can be his parallel.

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Gary Vaynerchuk

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller. '

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I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.

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I've never seen people as physically distraught as the Bush administration team was because of what was happening to the economy. I personally believe that the steps that President Obama took saved the economy. He doesn't get the credit he deserves for taking some very hard positions. But it was a terrible recession. So now we've dug ourselves out of it, we're standing, but we're not yet running.

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