George Barr McCutcheon Quotes
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.
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A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by,It's so hard to make every note bend just right.You lay down the hours and leave not one traceBut a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.
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The best mind-altering drug is truth.
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.
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A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
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He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
