George Eliot Quotes
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
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So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.
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'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
