George Eliot Quotes
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I never do anything that I don't want to do.
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It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!
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Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military-only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
