George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
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I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with me to things, but also one who isn't afraid to get her fingernails dirty or chip her nail polish.
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There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.
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I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.
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Acting is just such an incredible art form.
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We left Germany when I was 11.
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Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies.
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It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation.
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I am the youngest of three boys, and I was super-informed by what the older ones were into.
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I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.
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There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.
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It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.
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Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
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The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.
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The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.
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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
