George Eliot Quotes
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.
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Men will consider deeply before they buy a tie or choose a meal; but when it comes to throwing aside their purpose in life, possibly life itself, they do not think at all. They consent to be marshalled, controlled, exposed to unimagined shock, mutilation and death, with barely a tremor, and their reasons for complying, if indeed they have any, would comparen most shamefully with their reasons for doing anything else.
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When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
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I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
