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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Ronda Rousey changing the game for MMA, you know? Dana White said he'd never have a girl in the Octagon. Ronda Rousey comes along, and she's the main event any time she's on. The women, I feel, in the UFC are stealing the show.
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Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
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I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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I was blessed enough to talk to my grandfather the night before he passed, and he told me that everything was going to be okay, and I know he wanted me continue and do my best, be happy, and that's what keeps me going.
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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.
