George Eliot Quotes
Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
Quotes to Explore
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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The hard-core Left loves ridiculing Christians who believe scripture that says, 'God created the heaven and the earth.' They say that it's anti-science to believe that an almighty God would do such a thing.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.
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Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
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If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.
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The word is not the thing.
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I'm 78. We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to Heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.
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Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.
