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 was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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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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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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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 am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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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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The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.
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Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
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My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.
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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.
