George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Being Human clothing was first launched in France, Belgium and Spain, where the brand's philosophy of look good, do good is connecting with people and not just Salman Khan.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.
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Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.
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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.
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It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.
