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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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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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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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'm a working-class person, working with class.
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When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.
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By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.
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I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.
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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.
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For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
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the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
