George J. Mitchell Quotes
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
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The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.
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It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.
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To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
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Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.
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I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
