George H. W. Bush Quotes
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
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My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.
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I love working and I love doing lots of things and a variety of things. It keeps your mind active... and you don't end up worrying about just the one thing. When I chew things over or analyze too much, that is when I can trip myself up.
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It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son.
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I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.
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I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
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Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.
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You can put someone in a new home, but you can't give them a new mindset.
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We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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People are rational and respond to incentives. Behavior that looks irrational is actually completely rational once you think like an economist.
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They have nothing on me, those guys. They can't even touch me. Some people rate them better than me. That really bugs me. They think that no Americans play chess. When I meet those Russian patzers I'll put them in their place.
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Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell.
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The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.
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I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
