George Dennison Prentice Quotes
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.
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I'm always trying to find something new for my customers. Every season, I try to top myself and push it a little further.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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I put myself through college playing pool.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
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To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.
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You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.
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I hope they pay attention to the reasons that have been said, not in this forum but in many other forums in the world
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
