George Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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My parents have always been very open.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'I'm pregnant'.
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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
