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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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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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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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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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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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
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Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.
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If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
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Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.
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the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
