George Eliot Quotes
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.
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I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
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My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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Death is just life's next big adventure.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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For me, poetry is always a search for order.
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You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.
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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.
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I'd rather die than live without passion.
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What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds ...
