George Eliot Quotes
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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They just don’t trust people. They don’t trust individuals, they don’t trust any change that should serve and benefit people, and they try to stop it.
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Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.
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We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.
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And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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I think we need to be human. Nobody is objective. We need to go in and be human - especially today, especially given everything that's happening around us, especially given the divides between populations that are growing and what's at stake in terms of our collective humanity, and the fact that our moral compass is broken.
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Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
