George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
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I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.
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I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.
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For me, Lord Mountbatten represented the grandfather I never had.
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Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
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Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.
