George Eliot Quotes
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Quotes to Explore
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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For me, I like to be a little bit tomboy but still look like a lady. Pretty tough. Or really, really, really pretty.
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I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.
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I had difficulty working for other people.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
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Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.
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I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
