George C. Marshall Quotes
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.
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How many saucy airs we meet,From Temple Bar to Aldgate street!
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It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun.
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If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
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I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.
