George Eliot Quotes
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.
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It was different. I was sure to notice when Coach Alvarez used to come and sit in on my meeting or when he was in my drills, so I was trying to be a little bit conscientious of that, especially the first two days, trying to let coaches establish how they go about their business. I was just trying to stay at a distance, look around and watch for the first few days.
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We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
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What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
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The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.
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"I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."
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When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
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Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
