George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
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The attitude of the business community towards investment in Austria and Germany has always been positive, as both the countries have earned their reputation as countries with a consistent economic environment.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
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I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to findThat bliss which only centers in the mind.
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In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
