George Downing Quotes
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
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We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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Automobiles are like people: the cheap ones are noisy.
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
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I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.
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I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
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In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
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My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
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I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
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They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
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Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.
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The fact is that Americans were sent to Russia that have not been returned.
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No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.
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How do you tackle Rob Gronkowski? You gotta hit him low, man - hit him in his knees. That's the best chance you have of hitting him.
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Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
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Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
