George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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'Gravity' is a great example of a movie that we hope they're going to do more of. It's really entertaining, with a female star. It's not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
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It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it
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I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.
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The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
