George Eliot Quotes
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I'll never leave 'Community,' no matter what. You're either a lifer, or you're not.
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I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
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I have a personal Twitter for band purposes, but I don't use social media a lot.
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I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'
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Dogs are very, very pleasant with people that they're connected to.
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In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.
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The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.
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When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.
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It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.
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But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats.
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Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.
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However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.
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When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.
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I feel like if I cut down on my strikeouts, it would help my average. But I don't want to be too patient. I just keep the same approach as always.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
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I like the idea of getting money from corporations to do funny bits as long as they don't meddle.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
