George Herbert Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
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Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
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I am moved by music, and certain things just make my day.
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There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
