George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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Oh, indeed there is a tie between Iraq and what happened on 9/11. It’s not that Saddam Hussein was somehow himself and his regime involved in 9/11, but, if you think about what caused 9/11, it is the rise of ideologies of hatred that lead people to drive airplanes into buildings in New York.
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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
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The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
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The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
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When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.
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It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.
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It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.
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It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply and try to get a life out of that.
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Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive.
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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
