George A. Sheehan Quotes
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a kind of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you suffered.
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
