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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Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.
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Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
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It's amazing to impact people's lives - it's a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, "It's OK to be you."
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But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family and have a job and make a reasonable living without having to be on an airplane all of the time, then you ought to go back home and run for School Board.
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I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn't, thank God.
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Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.
