George Eliot Quotes
The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
George Eliot
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When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
Karl Lagerfeld
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If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
George Clooney
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The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.
Tilda Swinton
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Let Nature be your teacher
William Wordsworth
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The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.
Honore de Balzac
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
Victor Hugo
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If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.
Henry Kissinger
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
Oscar Wilde
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From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question.
Albert Camus
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The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.
George Eliot
