George Allen Quotes

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

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• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Mother

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• A man is what he thinks about all day long.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Day

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Film
  • Budget

• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • American
  • Government

• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Woman

• Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Free
  • Freedom

• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Time
  • Different
  • Language

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Golden

• It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Party
  • Chinese

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.

  

  Emmerson Mnangagwa
  • Humble

• I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

  

  Keala Settle
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • Good
  • God
  • Together

• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Life
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

  

  George Allen
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