George Horace Lorimer Quotes
The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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Health and well-being, as well as how we can live in harmony with our planet, is something I'm passionate about.
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Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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I'm a rapper-singer, or singer-rapper - it's not one before the other. I do both.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
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I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
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You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.
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The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.
