George Gilder Quotes
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
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This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.
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I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.
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There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.
