George Eliot Quotes
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
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Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
