George Eliot Quotes

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

Quotes to Explore
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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I'm a folk singer-songwriter. I am pretty poppy though.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
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That's the unwritten rule in hip-hop. If I get on a record with you, I want to smash you. That's it. Every MC knows that. If I'm on a track with you, I want to be the best on the track. That's just how it is in hip-hop.
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I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
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If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
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To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.