George C. Wolfe Quotes
Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
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We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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The welfare of Catalonia is only possible outside of Spain.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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A friend of mine is a chef in Bali, and another friend said, 'God, he's like Brad Pitt,' and I said, 'Yeah, I think he's more like arm Pitt,' 'cause, you know, 'Brad Pitt' would be a bit of an overstatement.
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I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
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I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.
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You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them … One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. Dogs would pursue their natural lives in the wild … they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.
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That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.
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Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
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Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how they actually look, but are satisfied with what their clothes make them feel and believe about their looks. These people may be the true originals, even though they are certainly not the best appreciated. The famous messages of dress, the well-known language of clothes, is very often not doing any communicating at all; a good deal of it is a form of private muttering.
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People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.
