George Best Quotes
One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.
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In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for the word 'broccoli.' They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
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The xx do not condone guns!
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.
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It's a funny thing when you know someone and you meet their siblings - you get so much a sense of who they are because when you can recognize similar traits in the family, you understand exactly why they are the way they are.
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It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.
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You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.
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You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.
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I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.
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I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
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It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior, out of the wild night, into the firelight, out of the howling dark.
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I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.
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I want to make big movies - but I don't want to have to die a little death every single time I do. Until I meet the people or the studio or the business people who will let me do things a little bit more the way that I need to do them, I probably shouldn't be making big studio movies.
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I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.
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One reason I don't want to play in England again is because we don't have any personalities.
