George Clooney Quotes
On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.
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The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
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Oh, God, Shannon. You're blowing my mind." Clint's morning voice was rich with passion. I wanted to correct him and explain that it wasn't his mind I was blowing, but my mother had taught me it was impolite to speak when one's mouth was full.
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On an awards-show day, I can play basketball, go in, take a shower and put on a tux - it takes me three minutes to put on a tux - and be out the door in 15 minutes.
