George Eliot Quotes

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, – it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.
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I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.
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I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.
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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.
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... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, – it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.