George Eliot Quotes

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
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I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!
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Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind." Clint's morning voice was rich with passion. I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his mind I was blowing, but my mother had taught me it was impolite to speak when one's mouth was full.
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I'm all about a big lash. I love a good mascara. I use Tom Ford lipsticks. I think he has the most vibrant colours, especially pink or orange or vampish reds, and that's about it.
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England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.