George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.
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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
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I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit.
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We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they may be less public.
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Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
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You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z.'
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The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
