George Gershwin Quotes
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.
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I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.
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I don't really know how my family and friends will react to seeing me on screen in a cinema. I'm sure it'll be an odd experience for them, just like I'm sure it will be for me.
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Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.
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I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.
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A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.