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.
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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.
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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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I actually feel like the phrase 'big in Japan' is not appropriate for me. The reason is that there are more people who sympathize with my practice in America than there are domestically in Japan.
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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.
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Governments started negotiating towards emission reduction in 1990. That's when the official negotiations started.
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An only child alone and wildA cabinet maker's son.His hands were meant for different workAnd his heart was known to none -He left his home and went his lone and solitary wayAnd he gave to me a gift I knowI never can repay.
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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.
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I remember the night when I was playing at Birdland, and Duke Ellington walked in wearing that cap of his and with all his elegance. The Duke then came backstage, and I was there with my band. That's the one thing I miss.
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People hate politicians. And I can understand why.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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It's most beautiful thing about my work. I have reached people who I would never have known without my work.
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When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping.
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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.
