George Haven Putnam Quotes

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

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• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

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• My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.

  

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• The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.

  

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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

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• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

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• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

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• Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  

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• There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

  

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• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

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• My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.

  

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• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

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• I love to be surprised.

  

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• I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

  

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• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

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• Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

  

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• A major figure of Croatia and the Balkans has disappeared. We have to hope that the elections that will now take place in Croatia ... will help Croatia in the direction of a democratic country.

  

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• I believe in God.....I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much.....I believe in God and love God.

  

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• Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

  

  George Haven Putnam
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