George Eliot Quotes
the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.
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We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.
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I'm all about working. I'm a really hard worker, and I'm taking advantage of all those different opportunities, on the music and acting side, because I love both.
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To see the universal and all – pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
