George Eliot Quotes
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
Natascha McElhone
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
Oscar Niemeyer
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
Laura Marling
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
Vincent Cassel
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
Ina Garten
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
J. Tillman
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
Patrick Carman
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
Patricia Highsmith
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
Jack Ma
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle
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I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
Zoe Kazan
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
Cameron Sinclair
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Harold Bloom
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
Ian Anderson
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I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.
Rand Paul
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Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.
E. M. Forster
