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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I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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The phenomena and underlying mechanisms discussed in this book may thus become even more relevant to a larger and larger portion of human activity. Understand their origin, and be prepared for subtle but significant precursors!
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A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
