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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I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.
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The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
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I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
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Americans are so egocentric.
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Reading is important.
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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.
