George Horace Lorimer Quotes
There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
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The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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The arsenal of megadeath can't be rid no matter what the peace treaties come to.
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Your heart keeps jumping like a kangaroo, floating like an onion in a bowl of stew.
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We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.
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We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.
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If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.
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Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
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When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?
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How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
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There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.
