George Eliot Quotes
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
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I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
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I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.
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We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.
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I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like 'Bourne.'
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. How can we ever be satisfied without them until our feelings are deadened?
