George Eliot Quotes
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
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As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As citizens, we must invest in our library down the street so that the generations served by that library grow up to be adults who contribute not just to their local communities but to the world.
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I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.
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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!
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I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
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I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.
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Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
