George Eliot Quotes

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

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• I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

  

  Earl Weaver
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  • Better
  • July

• I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Pretty

• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Matters

• I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Age
  • Think

• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Think
  • You
  • Meet

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
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  • Hate
  • Equal

• Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

  

  A. A. Milne
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  • Stop
  • Forget

• I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Washington

• Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Working
  • Now

• I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Television

• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Perspective

• I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Think

• I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Romantic

• I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Home
  • Think
  • Movies

• I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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  • Funny
  • Sex

• I think it is very important for all actors to complete their studies side by side.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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  • Think
  • Side

• I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Think
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

  

  Naomie Harris
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  • Like
  • Chosen

• I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

  

  Mara Wilson
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  • Know
  • Try

• I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Reading

• New England is demanding newer, cleaner, and more innovative energy sources - energy sources that create jobs here in New England. We should also demand newer, cleaner, and more innovative transmission methods.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Energy
  • New
  • Create

• I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Me
  • Justice
  • Politics

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

  

  George Eliot
  • Think
  • Married
  • Engaged