George Eliot Quotes
Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
Quotes to Explore
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.
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My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.
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Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.
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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
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Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.
