George Eliot Quotes
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.
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I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it - I have to work for them!
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I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.
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You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then you have others where poor people are working hard and underconsuming and their governments are buying all this debt and propping up the extravagant countries. All of this has to change. There's a tremendous moral hazard involved with this system.
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Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
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The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
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The best job a man could have would be a chef. They'd understand the long hours I work and the drive and ambition it takes to succeed.
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Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
