George Henry Lewes Quotes
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I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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Literature has become too psychological.
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
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The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
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It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength.
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
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Words are never trite when they’re spoken with sincerity.
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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
