George Eliot Quotes
The world would have a new dreariness for her, as a wilderness that a magician’s spells had turned for a little while into a garden.
Quotes to Explore
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.
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Our politics is about people not flags.
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The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.
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Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
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The world would have a new dreariness for her, as a wilderness that a magician’s spells had turned for a little while into a garden.
