George Eliot Quotes
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
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Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
