George Eliot Quotes
If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
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It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
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There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
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My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.
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If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.
