George Eliot Quotes
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
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I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage.
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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.
