George Eliot Quotes
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.
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We don't want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful - not only to that member of the community but the entire community.
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.
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Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.
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The summer day is closed - the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west. The green blade of the ground Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun; Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil, From bursting cells, and in their graves await Their resurrection. Insects from the pools Have filled the air awhile with humming wings, That now are still for ever; painted moths Have wandered the blue sky, and died again
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One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
