George Eliot Quotes
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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When it comes to peaking at the right time, I have to thank my coach Mike Holmes: he is a genius.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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He would not journey without a foot. He would not breed nuts without trees, Like seeking for ants in the heath. Like an instrument of foolish spoil, Like the retinue of an army without a head, Like feeding the unsheltered on lichen.
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Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.
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The problem comes when readers take these two accounts and combine them into one overarching account, in which Jesus says, does, and experiences everything narrated in both Gospels. When that is done, the messages of both Mark and Luke get completely lost and glossed over. Jesus is no longer in deep agony, as in Mark (since he is confident as in Luke), and he is no longer calm and in control as in Luke (since he is in despair as in Mark). He is somehow all things at once. Also
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Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
