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.'
Quotes to Explore
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The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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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!'
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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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.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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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.
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Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
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It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
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The CIA maintains prepackaged stocks of foreign weapons for instant shipment anywhere in the world.
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Him they would not harm, Englishmen being, though infidel, yet the race of past District Officers, judges, doctors, men perhaps, in their time, more helpful than otherwise, powerful but mild.
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When I was 19 years old, I hitchhiked across the country to San Francisco.
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Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
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. . . '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.'
