Gene Green Quotes
I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.
Quotes to Explore
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.
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The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.
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We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.
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The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.
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I have such a deep love for traditional country music.
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I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.
