George Crook Quotes
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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The railroads once were a dominant power in American life, for good and for ill. There's something inevitably nostalgic about a train book today. Trains attract us, but part of that attraction is cultural memory.
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The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
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TV is the best babysitter.
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Since the state was dismantled in Iraq, institutions have disappeared and people have withdrawn into their clans and tribes.
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But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.
