George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
-
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
-
I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
-
My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
-
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
-
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
-
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
-
I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
-
I have disassociated myself from that book.
-
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
-
Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
-
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
-
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
-
My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
-
While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
-
I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
-
I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
-
I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
-
But until AT&T articulates its growth strategy, the stock could be vulnerable.
-
This is an area where we see growth.
-
The essential is to cease being free and to obey, in repentance, a greater rogue than oneself. When we are all guilty, that will be democracy.
-
I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
-
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
-
I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
