George F. Kennan Quotes

I am like a person who has placed poison in one of two glasses before a person he loves-and looks back upon his act with horror and incredulity-but still does not know from which glass the person will drink.

George F. Kennan

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• There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
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• Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

  

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• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

  

  Wendie Malick
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• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
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• I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.

  

  Kate Bush
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• Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
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• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
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• Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.

  

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• while lighting a fire on the beach Fuck! Go to Alaska! No, no, no, no. You fucking asshole ocean! No!

  

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• If you're squeezed for information,that's when you've got to play it dumb:You just say you're out there waitingfor the miracle to come.

  

  Leonard Cohen
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• I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

  

  Chance The Rapper
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• I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

  

  Sheryl Crow
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• 'Sophie's Choice' is actually the reason I became an actress.

  

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• The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.

  

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• The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

  

  Ellen G. White
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• I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I don't know why I write what I write.

  

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• I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we've had and lived.

  

  Vicky Krieps

• I am like a person who has placed poison in one of two glasses before a person he loves-and looks back upon his act with horror and incredulity-but still does not know from which glass the person will drink.

  

  George F. Kennan