George Allen, Sr. Quotes
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An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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I love doing kids' films.
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I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
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I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
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Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as 'cool,' 'not cool,' 'jock,' 'bombshell,' 'quirky'... it's like a caste system. You're either in, or you're out.
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Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
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Yon rising Moon that looks for us again - How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Garden - and for one in vain!
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We have all in some degree become anarchistic.
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... if the majority of men cannot know what is good for them, each for himself, how can they know what is good for others by proxy? If they are to be controlled by specialists, how and by what standard can they choose the specialist?
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I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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I have never given up on men easily.
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Anyone who makes time frames beyond tomorrow probably isn't pushing himself hard enough.
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I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.
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The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.
