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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People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.
Iggy Azalea
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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
