George Eliot Quotes
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
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Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.
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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
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In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
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Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
