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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Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
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Any material form, or thought, or feeling, past or present, should be regarded as, 'This is not mine, this is not what I am, this is not my self.'
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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.
