George Eliot Quotes
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
Quotes to Explore
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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I trust no one totally.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.
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In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.
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The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.
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The universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one causal and the other teleological.
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'‘Not everything that walks is a man,’' said the boulder conversationally, '‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,’ as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him.'
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Five of the above rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.
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The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,’ as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it.
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If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
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What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
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To move the world we must move ourselves.
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«To me, being president of the country is awesome.»
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I've done a lot of weird, otherworldly characters, and I think I'm at my best when I'm kind of in the woods running around screaming or depressed.
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Us women, we are the givers of life. We're the only ones in the world that can carry more than one spirit in us. We are multi-modal. When I was young I could nurse my child and stir the stew and kick the cat out at the same time.
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Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.
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I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.
