George Eliot Quotes
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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I like smudgy black eyes and pale lips for evening. Red lipstick looks great on other girls, but it's too much on me.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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They won't be required to sacrifice anything in order to belong to your assembly. A religion that is all sweetness, but no light; all form, but no substance; all tradition, but no precept.
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The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
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The final sentence here is an expression of what became known as the Pragmatic maxim, first published in 'Illustrations of the Logic of Science' in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 12 (January 1878), p. 286
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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You have these megabrands who make most of their money off hip-hop culture. Where were they in the time of need?
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
