George Eliot Quotes
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
