George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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I started writing songs when I was 10. It was a natural way to express myself as a kid. It wasn't until I started listening to jazz, joined the choir and picked up a guitar that my little hobby became something far more serious.
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You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
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How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
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One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.
