George Eliot Quotes
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
Quotes to Explore
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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There is one person that I have learned always sees the beauty in us, and that's our Savior Jesus Christ.
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That's our mission: to clean and green New York City - one block at a time.
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Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.
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Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
