George C. Wolfe Quotes
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
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If I'd had the choice when I was 14, and someone had said to me, 'You can either be a footballer or an actor,' I'd have said: 'Well, can't I be a footballing actor?'
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.
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Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
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When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
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Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Yes, I've had some pretty good luck finding wonderful talent.
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
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In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.
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Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.
