George Eliot Quotes
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.
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We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small
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More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
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Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.
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This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.
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... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
