George Eliot Quotes
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George Eliot
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
Dalai Lama
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
Karen Horney
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
Callie Khouri
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
Palmer Luckey
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
J. Martin Kohe
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
Paolo Sorrentino
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
Patrick Swayze
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
Orson Pratt
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
Sam Harris
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
Zach Galifianakis
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
Ada Yonath
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Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
Nat Faxon
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
Nadia Ali
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But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.
Earl Nightingale
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There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.
Mat Kearney
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Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.
George Packer
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As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
Bobby Sherman
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In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.
George Eliot
