George Eliot Quotes
But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.
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I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
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But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
