George Eliot Quotes
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
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When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
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You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
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The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.
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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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I do believe that in the future there will be a movie called 'Deadpool vs. Wolverine'.
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If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
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The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.
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It never really was difficult for me not starting because I understood the circumstances.
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Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want.
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I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.
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People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country.
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Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
