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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They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.
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Now, I want to remember all this. My life has known days of innocence when I had only to close my eyes in order not to see.
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I closed my eyes. I guess that was going to be my new thing. I couldn’t exactly storm away in anger. I’d just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe.
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Look! A see-through wall of glass! 22
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I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'.
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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.