George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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My family are my friends.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in NYC, and I grew up attending the collections with my mother, so I have a particular aesthetic, which is classic glamour with a twist.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
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Substantial services growth is core to Boeing's strategy.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
