George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.
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As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
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Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
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A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.
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'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.
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Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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My experience is that if you're fighting for something you believe in-even if it means alienating some people along the way-things usually work out for the best in the end.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books - but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
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I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell
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All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
