George Eliot Quotes
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek -
It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
J. Tillman -
Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
Felicia Day -
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
Vera Farmiga -
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
Dan Brown -
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
Tatyana Ali -
The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
Olivier Theyskens -
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
Uwe Boll
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Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.
Tariq Ramadan -
I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
Calvin Johnson -
I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
Edie McClurg -
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry -
I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
Finn Wittrock -
People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
Kate Moss
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You don't throw your quarterback under the bus, the guy who makes you who you are.
Antonio Brown -
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
Octavia E. Butler -
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman -
When you're setting up your dating profile, choose the photos according to who you are today. A variety of recent shots that are a true representation of your character.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
George Eliot