George Combe Quotes
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.
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I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.
