George Eliot Quotes

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.
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Let's admit it; the only use for complaining is to make people laugh.
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I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.