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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I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.
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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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People respond differently to the same image and put on what they want or hope or feel onto that image.
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.
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… that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing - not themselves but - all their neighbours.
