George Allen, Sr. Quotes
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I always admired my father because he was a man that never put on any airs, you know. And I always tried to be that kind of person.
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And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
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Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
