G. M. Trevelyan Quotes
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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We're manufacturing to meet the demands of our own people but, in the meantime, for the entire world as well, and that definitely put a lot of extra pressure on our environment.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.
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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
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I read many years ago how healthcare was organized in Ancient Chinese villages. They have a doctor, and this doctor was paid one egg or chicken by each family when each family member was healthy. When something goes wrong, they stop paying. So the doctor was motivated not to spend money for healing but to spend money for preventing disease. This the product. You should organize the system that way. The system as a whole is setting the product of maintaining health.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
