George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
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Living in New Zealand, that's something that you'd like to do as an actor, but very rarely do you get an opportunity to get such a good springboard as 'The Hobbit' to help you get international work.
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'
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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
