George Eliot Quotes
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
Quotes to Explore
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I'm a very boring person.
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Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
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They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.
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By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
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Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.
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The only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.
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I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
