George Eliot Quotes
So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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When I was 16, the pot weeded out the men from the boys, there were the heads and the straights. Now it's almost like money can weed it out, you know?
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If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
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You cannot make a teenage idol.
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So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.
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I want to venture out into music education for kids. As a child, I was discouraged by a lack of money, and now I want to use my platform to give back to kids without resources.
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So to live is heaven: To make undying music in the world, Breathing a beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.
