Jason Winston George Quotes
When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
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There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.
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Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
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If you're not making shots and you're not playing defense, you get a score like we got.
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There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
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You don’t obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.
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When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'
