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.
Katha Pollitt
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz
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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.
Dakota Fanning
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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.
Utada Hikaru
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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.
Dallas Roberts
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti
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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.
Narendra Modi
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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.
Ralph Fiennes
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
Vance McAllister
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
Zack Snyder
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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.
E. M. Forster
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Bashar al-Assad
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Aaron Sorkin
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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.
Zoe Foster Blake
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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.
Karen Armstrong
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
Hannah Simone
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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.
Rachel Bloom
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
Rafael dos Anjos
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One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot.
Kirsten Prout
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
William James
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Islam is not a religion of peace. It's a political theory of conquest that seeks domination by any means it can.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Some people think of feminine as just being pretty and quiet and sweet, but I also think being feminine is being angry and also being sexy and aggressive and passionate.
Charli XCX
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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.
George Eliot