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 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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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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I have mentors like Erykah Badu. She's been like a big sister to me.
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It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.
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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
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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.
