George Eliot Quotes
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
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By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.
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It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.
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Dogs are nicer than people.
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Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
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All three games came down to the last play.
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To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
