George Edward Woodberry Quotes
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.
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I'm a lot less serious than people think.
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The infant is ten and he stays.
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In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.
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To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
