George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
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Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!
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When I'm doing my makeup, my favorite feature to enhance is the brows. They frame your face - good eyebrows are so important.
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I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
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I feel like I need to continuously keep evolving and moving.
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
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The question tonight, as I understand it, is 'The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?' or What Next?' In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.
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He Jean still felt surges of generosity, and gave in to them if they didn’t cramp his style. That was it. He could be kind if kindness caused him no problems.
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John O'Hara was a terrible bore as a young man-always looking for a fight, and making sure he never found one.
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Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.
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A sharp spear needs no polish.
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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It was a room where you had no reason for sitting in one place rather than in another.
