George Eliot Quotes
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.
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I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
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Be natural and use your head.
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Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
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Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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At 'Price Is Right,' people feel so safe there and loved. And if you can't jump around on 'Price is Right,' then you can't jump around anywhere, you know?
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I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
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The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
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It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.
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It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
