George Allen Quotes
I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
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When a war breaks out, people say: 'It's too stupid; it can't last long.' But though the war may well be 'too stupid,' that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
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I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.
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But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.
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I'm extremely blessed because I travel extensively for my work, but I always try to incorporate a bit of leisure with business.
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You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders.
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If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.
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Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.
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Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.
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Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.
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It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.
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It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.
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I had my shortcomings - crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all.
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We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.
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I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness.
