George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
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A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.
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I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.
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Tony Scott, Walter Hill, Michael Mann - I'm a big action fan, full stop. And even though Michael Mann is the more celebrated film-maker than Tony Scott, I love them both in different ways.
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Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
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I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.
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Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.
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Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.
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There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.
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There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life.
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I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.
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There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that the only driving force in anyone's life is entropy. The second is that everything pretty much stays the same (more or less) and that everything is completely connected, even if we don't realize it.
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We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
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Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
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Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
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When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.
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Your reflex to help others starts to control you if you don’t understand what’s happening and take steps to prevent it.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
