George Eliot Quotes
It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
Quotes to Explore
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
