George Eliot Quotes

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

George Eliot

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• For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

  

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• Saddam Hussein is not entitled to any presumption of innocence.

  

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• We have to have a combination of general relativity that describes the warping of space and time, and quantum physics, which describes the uncertainties in that warping and how they change.

  

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• I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.

  

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• If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

  

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• “Happiness springs up of itself in a united family. - House of Exile”

  

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• It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

  

  Adrien Brody
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• I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.

  

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• Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

  

  Anneli Rufus
  • Tired
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• Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

  

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  • Struggle
  • Reflection
  • Standards

• I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Like

• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

  

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  • Labor
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• Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Different
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• I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa Dorfman and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Revolution
  • Camera
  • Interview

• Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

  

  George Eliot
  • Pattern
  • Consciences