George Crabbe Quotes
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
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Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
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I love to clean.
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The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
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In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
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The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.
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If you constantly pound your muscles, they'll never have time to repair.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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Ultimately, we're heading to having the smallest political tent in history, the way events have been unfolding. If the Republican Party fully intends to become a majority party in the future, it must move from the far right back toward the middle.
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Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.
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Sometimes we'll sigh - sometimes we'll cryAnd we'll know why just you and I know true love ways.
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[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of - it was the logical culmination of separatism and racial isolationism and exclusion.
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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
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Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.
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But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,That right was right, and there he would abide.
