George Eliot Quotes

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
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When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.
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Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.
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Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.