George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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I'm glad that Gov. Scott down in Florida accepted ObamaCare, because it will work.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.
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I'm looking for smart friends all the time.
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Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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My river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.
