George C. Marshall Quotes
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.
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You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.
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You know what would be a fun game? If Pac-Man was on a beach, and he was chomping coconuts. You could see how tan you could get your Pac-Man.
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I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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I lead a multi-faith life.
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I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
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I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.
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I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.
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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
