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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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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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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I was raised Catholic, so guilt shackles you from acting like a complete fool all the time.
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I do a mean mouth trumpet.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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More than 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and my country remains the largest source of immigrants to the United States.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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The congressional role in declaring war is especially important not when the United States is the victim of an attack, but when the United States is planning to wage war abroad.
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I never wanted to be defined by what I did for a living.
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People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.
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I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.
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Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
