George Eliot Quotes
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
Quotes to Explore
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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Every role is a new form of surrender.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
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All children are manipulators.
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The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything-I am being sympathetic, not satiric-for the very best reasons.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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I agreed the situation was sticky. Indeed, offhand it was difficult to see how it could have been more glutinous.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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'Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!'
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It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
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There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.
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The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I'm very liberal.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
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It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
