George Eliot Quotes
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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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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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I have a love for boxing.
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My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.
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All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.
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Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.
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The best thing women in tech can do is to invest in other women.
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I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.
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I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.
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The U.N. has brought peace and order to many places around the world. However, terrorism, violent extremism, violations of human rights, natural disasters caused by climate change - they all threaten the lives of people today. Add migration, insufficient health care, lack of education, and the picture gets even bleaker.
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I always commit myself to the teams I play for and always want to win. I hate losing. It's just that, at times, I go about things the wrong way, and that created problems.
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Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .
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On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
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In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
