George Eliot Quotes
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant -
We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson -
There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
Barry Took -
Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
Zac Posen -
When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.
Lana Del Rey -
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
Victoria Abril
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I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I couldn't do in this world.
Dak Prescott -
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr -
I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.
Pat Barker -
I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.
Anthony Bourdain -
Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.
Kim Young-sam
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I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
Jodi Picoult -
People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
Clare Balding -
No matter what you write, you need an active imagination.
Elizabeth Berg -
I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.
Brian Posehn -
When I am on the blocks, I don't care who you are - I will always try and beat you.
Chad le Clos -
When I was 20, my husband at the time looked at me said, 'You're fat; go run.' There weren't a lot of tools at the end of the '70s to lose weight. It took me a while to realize what kind of exercise would make me happy and I would look forward to doing. And running became it.
Kim Alexis
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
William McFee -
Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott -
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
Utah Phillips -
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
George Eliot