Gene Green Quotes
It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
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Racing's my life.
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I don't listen to music when I run; I like the quiet. It gives me time to think about my family, our businesses, the farm - there's not much I don't think about, to be honest.
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
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You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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It takes time to understand the difference between civilian POWs and military POWs. There's an educational process.
