George Eliot Quotes
If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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There's no experience like on-the-job training.
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If a working mom or dad loses a job because of sickness, the family may slip into poverty.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.
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The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever destroyed and wiped out as a race of people. I am now at the head of many warriors backed by the strong arm of English soldiers. Choctaws and Chickasaws, you have too long borne with grievous usurpation inflicted by the arrogant Americans.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When I'm in the gym or running alone, there's always music. If I'm in the weights gym, I usually go for rap or rock music; for running, it's dance or cheesy pop.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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Our obsession with material things and lack of self-worth is evident in our need for an abundance of momentary luxuries and must-have amenities that have no true value for real, man. And I mean, we do it just to impress people that could care less if your children or your children's children have anything left to show for your life after you gone.
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Nothing in fine print is ever good news.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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Overseas, church, Vatican You at a stand still mannequin
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
