George Horace Lorimer Quotes
Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
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I will come back to India - so deal with it.
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Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn't be.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
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You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.
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They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.
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If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
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My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
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When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?
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I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
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Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.
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When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
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I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
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Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.
