George Eliot Quotes
. . . 'there's allays two 'pinions; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.'George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
Edith Stein -
People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
Carl Lewis -
I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
Cara Buono -
The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
Jack Keane -
I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
Waris Dirie -
But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham -
They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
Patrick Carman -
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
Gary Oldman -
Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.
Indra Nooyi -
Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
Ian Schrager
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
Ike Skelton -
I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
Facundo Pieres -
It is possible for every man to go deep within and saturate his conscious mind with inner happiness with that unlimited intelligence that dwells at the source of thought.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
Lorna Luft -
It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
Jennifer Carpenter
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We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
Jim Wallis -
I was a huge O. J. Simpson fan.
Courtney B. Vance -
If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event. So the dimensions of it will be seen differently by different people.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
I go to different places all the time. And I try to be as discreet as I can. My whole thing is to be invisible. You get more natural pictures that way, too.
Bill Cunningham The Box Tops -
. . . 'there's allays two 'pinions; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.'
George Eliot