George Eliot Quotes
… that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing - not themselves but - all their neighbours.
Quotes to Explore
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I'm aware of the urgency to give Italy a government in the fullness of its powers, to reassure the citizens, and to face with utmost commitment and determination international, economic and social priorities.
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I love my sleep.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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You have to make enough noise to be cast in the right films, and the best way to make that noise is to do lots of good work.
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We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span.
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I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.
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I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
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Before I nodded off, I thought about what my dad had said—that life wasn’t all nice and neat like a book, and life didn’t have a plot filled with characters who said intelligent and beautiful things. But he wasn’t right about that. See, my dad said intelligent and beautiful things. And he was real. He was the most real thing in the entire world. So why couldn’t I be like him?
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
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Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.
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… that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing - not themselves but - all their neighbours.
