George Eliot Quotes
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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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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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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 try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.
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No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
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The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable properties of the method. It thus represents another clear-cut example of the enormous practical impact of an investment in research which might not have been considered commercially worthwhile, or of immediate medical relevance. It resulted from esoteric speculations, for curiosity's sake, only motivated by a desire to understand nature.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
