George Eliot Quotes
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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I was like, 'Did I win Roland Garros? What happened?'
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Only when you live desperately can you shine the light of life.
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.
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The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.
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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
