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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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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I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.
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A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
