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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I hear a lot of girls say, 'I can be myself around you,' and I'm always thinking, 'Who are you when you're with somebody else?'
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I feel sorry for Sparta when you’re queen. What are you going to do? Tell your husband and the rest of the court that they can wrap your beauty around them to keep warm and well all winter?
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Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.
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Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice.
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Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.
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the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
