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George Eliot Quotes

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

Topics

Father End Paid Alphabet Birch Bit

I think I am the most dominant superstar in WWE.

I Am Think Dominant Superstar WWE

Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.

Fight War Happy Looking Back Victory

When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.

Face Bend Changes Skull Shape Bones

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Day Mind Action You Living Way

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

People City Black Violence Place

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

Robyn Hitchcock

Thirty Everyone Years Something Knew

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Good Movies Prejudice More Disagree

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us, 'How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity.'

Good Live God Heart Patriotism You

Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write.

Christopher Paolini

Education Teacher Great Time School

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

Family School College Go First Side

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up - I knew I was going to hell before anyone ever told me that I was. People found comfort in this all-knowing source, but I felt frightened and found out. I developed some weird and very dramatic complexes.

God People Me Growing Up Hell Weird

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Peaceful Celebration Woodstock Global

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