George Eliot Quotes
Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
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For 11 years, I was mayor of Tirana, our capital. We faced many challenges. Art was part of the answer, and my name, in the very beginning, was linked with two things: demolition of illegal constructions in order to get public space back, and use of colors in order to revive the hope that had been lost in my city.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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Acting's boring.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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Collecting is my passion.
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There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
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My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you're a little kid - the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.
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The waiter just flashed me something that said, "Chew bubblegum." Every morning, when I was about to go to the Oprah competition, my friend used to say this line in a video game to me: "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum." There's a strict policy that you can't encourage anyone on a reality show, that would give them an edge.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Love is not a weak, spineless emotion; it is a powerful moral force on the side of justice.
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For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
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You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.
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Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.
