George Eliot Quotes
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.
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I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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Money without brains is always dangerous.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
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I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.
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The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
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The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act - but the fear of the act. That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings. But why is the Republican Party imitating them? Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; The Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear. The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
