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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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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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you.
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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.
