George Borrow Quotes
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.
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For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
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I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people.
