George Horace Lorimer Quotes
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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Loyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter.
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I have never seen so many celebrities and their pets in one place, giving such support to the cause of protecting animal rights. Protecting their rights should always be our first priority.
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Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
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What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.
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My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
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The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.
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God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
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...not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.
