George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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I want to encourage other young girls not to grow up too soon. Just enjoy the now.
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You can never perfect a relationship, and you can never perfect yourself to be in a relationship. You're always going to be changing, and you hope it's for the better.
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
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The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
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That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.
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Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
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Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
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I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.
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We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well.
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Tithing is a bad ceiling but an excellent floor.
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'Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?''Very long-term-at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.'
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The university, vanguard of our struggling people, cannot become a backward element, but it would become so if the university did not incorporate itself into the great plans of the Revolution.
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We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.
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Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
