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 came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.
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A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness ...
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Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
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If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.
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The question will be asked, 'Should 500 men, ordinary men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed, override the judgment...of millions of people who are engaged in the industry which makes the wealth of the country?'
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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.