George Eliot Quotes
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
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I love hanging out with my friends; I love to run. I box. I'm a huge movie buff.
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I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.
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I'm trying to make the world a more open place.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
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A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
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Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.
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I just find that with music I've always felt a sort of comfort.
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Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
