George J. Mitchell Quotes
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
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Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.
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I'm very proud of what I was able to do during the '90s, when baggy pants were in and East/West rap was relevant and all these different things.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.
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I remember a Q&A I did in Wales where there were five people in the auditorium.
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You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
