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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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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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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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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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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Most of us are animal lovers. We insist that we love all animals equally - the hamster, the weasel, and the zebra - but if pressed, we will admit to being either a cat person or a dog person.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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I think there needs to be modified penalties in training camp because there's severely modified compensation in training camp for all of us.
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If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.
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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.
