George Eliot Quotes
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.
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Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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This will wreck you! Today, treat everyone you meet as if they're going to be dead by midnight. extend all the kindness and understanding you can, and do it with no thought of any reward.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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Don't ever fret over married children; they will take care of themselves.
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Failure cannot cope with persistence.
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Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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I don't worry about losing all my fans. Whatever true fans you've got will stick by you, so that's nothing to worry about
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.
