George Gillespie Quotes
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
Quotes to Explore
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
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We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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It's one thing to talk about the redistribution of wealth. It's quite another thing to talk about the redistribution of power. That's more what interests me.
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'The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal...'(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)
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There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,
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When you have kids, all your plans, everything that you do is for them to have fun.
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It's something my mother believed in: If you are in a position of privilege, if you can put your name to something that you genuinely believe in, you can smash any stigma you want, and you can encourage anybody to do anything.
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Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base repels them. Their inclination instead is to get bigger, and this often leads them to pay rich prices for acquisitions that never earn their keep.
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When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
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The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.
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There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
