George J. Mitchell Quotes
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.
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As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.
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I believe education is a bipartisan issue, and I intend to support those educational policies of President Trump with which I agree.
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One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
