George Ade Quotes
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Your band members? Your band members don't want to be tied to a machine. They want to be playing. That's what the Beatles did. And the Beatles' stuff is timeless. That's what I would suggest. Just get back to sweating, playing hard, hammering, and having a blast.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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I love penguins.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.
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With 'Wind River,' I became fascinated with the notion of how you overcome a tragedy - accepting it, making whatever peace you can with it - without ever knowing what really happened.
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I want to be successful, and I want to do good, but I also want to be myself.
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The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
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Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be 'me.' (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)
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Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.
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The thunder of love is unassailable.
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The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.
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I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
