George Eliot Quotes
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.
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They demen gladly to the badder end.
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.
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Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
