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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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
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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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In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
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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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It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.
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All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.
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The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
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... 'the Continent's traditional social contract' - perhaps its major contribution to contemporary civilization - 'is obsolete' and must be dismantled.
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As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
