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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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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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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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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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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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.
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Some of the metaphors you find in 'Wicked' - how those in power can exploit fear in others to maintain their power - I think, as Jews, we've seen that historically on more than one occasion.
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In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.
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The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
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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.
