George Dyson Quotes
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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My mom is a great entertainer.
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Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
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You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
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The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed, so far as Executive influence can avail.
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Ignorance never settles a question.
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I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a.m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.
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I've always liked the idea of walking into a cocktail party where there are different people and finding some connection with almost everybody in the room.
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It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.
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I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.
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I want to touch people's lives with my music and my lyrics.
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The greatest evil is physical pain.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.
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You can't really ignore what's going on in this planet, in our world, and the way it's all falling apart.
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I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!
