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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My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.
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I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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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.
