George Eliot Quotes
He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
Ed Rendell
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
Garet Garrett
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
Randy Jackson
Breakfast Club
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
Nancy Thayer
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Ramana Maharshi
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
Gary Owen
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I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
Umberto Eco
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The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.
Patrick Wilson
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
Ferdinand Foch
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When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
Alicia Keys
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
Fernando Pessoa
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All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
John Coltrane
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He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
George Eliot
