George Eliot Quotes
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I would like to direct.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
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Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.
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What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.
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I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.
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One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
