George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.
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Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
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(The Giants) completely dominated us the first go-around. We have a lot at stake and I know the Giants do, too. I think it's a big deal that you play the 15th game of the year and it's for something important. ... I get uptight because you worry about having to play the Giants. I don't like doing that, but we got a lot riding on it and I know New York does too.
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
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And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.
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My girlfriend knows that if I'm acting weird at home to go to one of my shows to see what's on my mind.
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Any time you get up in the morning and get started it's easier, ... It's easier on your stomach, that's for sure.
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It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
