George Farquhar Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
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I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
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I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.
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I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.
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Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
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Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.
