George Combe Quotes
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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What some people would call antics, I would just call a good show.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
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Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:'Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake.'
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I don't think there's going to be sustainable demand for restaurants that force you to spend hours there.
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I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
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I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.
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I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
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We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
