George Eliot Quotes
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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I love 'Glee.'
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.
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One day you are drinking the wine, and they next day you are picking the grapes.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
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The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.
