George Eliot Quotes
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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What's changed is we now have good anatomical, geological, archaeological evidence that Neanderthals are not our ancestors. When I wrote 'Lucy,' I considered Neanderthals ancestors of modern humans. We have gone back twice the age of Lucy, six million years. And we see that upright bipedal walking goes back that far in time.
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I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.
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Females should stand by each other, especially in an industry which seems to try so hard to pin us up against each other and make us fight. It's not about that for me. I refuse to be sucked into a twisted world of insecurity and lose who I am.
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I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'
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Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
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History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
