George Eliot Quotes
Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.
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I'm sorry. The two most inadequate words in the English language.
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I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested.
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I've learned... That one should keep his words both soft and tender, because tomorrow he may have to eat them.
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If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel and, if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
