George Eliot Quotes
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situations - the foreigner, the outsider. The first time I've ever felt like there was no separation between me and the other elements was in music.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
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Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.
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I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.
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[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.
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Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.
