George Eliot Quotes
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
Quotes to Explore
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
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In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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I never look at any pictures of myself on the red carpet. I can't do that.
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I don't mind being the one people talk about. It doesn't weigh on me.
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Every team has a person who is used as a reference, a player who stands out more than others.
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Making your own records is really satisfying in the sense that you more or less get to do what you want. It may not sell or whatever, but on an artistic level, the only people that you really have to fight with are the people in your own band.
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You gotta have a good beat to survive in modern country in general. Everyone wants to feel good, laugh, dance, and cry. But at the same time, they all want it to sound happy.
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There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
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America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.
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Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
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[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by the United States itself at the dawn of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later transformed into the World Trade Organisation.
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When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
