George Clooney Quotes
Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
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I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.
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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.
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Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.
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Growing up during the Cold War period, I always found that, although we always thought that the world would end in some sort of nuclear holocaust, at some point, everybody was pretty hopeful.
