George F. Kennan Quotes
I have never been any good at training children or dogs; that is why I am no good at training myself.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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The devil made me do it.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
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Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium.
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I should have more vanity.
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I have a terrible problem with procrastination... a friend told me, 'Well, you should go to therapy.' And I thought about it, but then I said, 'Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?' And that's when I got the idea of touring.
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Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
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I have never been any good at training children or dogs; that is why I am no good at training myself.
