George Chakiris Quotes
I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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There is no one true church.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
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There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.
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Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.
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I think some of you have to go through the pain of being rejected, the pain of being attacked on television, and ultimately there are people at home who are rooting for you and are wondering why more people don't defend what they stand up for.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.
