George C. Wolfe Quotes

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George C. Wolfe

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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.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Home
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Bored

• I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • I Love

• 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.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Idea
  • Unity
  • Rendering

• 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.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Success
  • Me
  • Sad

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Today
  • Innovation
  • Google

• You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Business
  • You
  • Dress

• 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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Want

• I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• 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?'

  

  Ian McShane
  • Actor
  • Choice
  • Footballer

• 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.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • High
  • Engineering

• Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Remember
  • Opportunities

• Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Thanks
  • Everyone

• Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Me
  • Tell

• Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

  

  Samina Baig
  • People
  • Time
  • First Time

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Good
  • Music
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Fun
  • Sometimes
  • Humor

• Rock Hudson, I suppose.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Rock

• I’d never been part of a group like that, so it was interesting, like a National Geographic special on wolves that I might watch with my dad. And I was part of the pack.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Interesting
  • Wolves
  • National Geographic

• What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

  

  Charlotte Moss
  • Remember
  • Atmosphere
  • Rooms

• President Obama made the right choice, over one million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, 'I've got your back.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • American
  • Today
  • Choice

• I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

  

  George Crumb
  • People
  • Music

• Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

  

  George C. Wolfe