George J. Mitchell Quotes

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

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• I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

  

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
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• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  

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• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

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• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

  

  Lara Stone
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• This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.

  

  Zhang Yimou
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• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
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• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
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• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

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• The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
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• With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  

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• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

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• As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

  

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• I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.

  

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• It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

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• I really have a distaste for poets who announce themselves at 50 yards; you know, here he comes, you know, with the beret and the cane and the cape and the whatever - whatever mishegas is part of the outfit there.

  

  Billy Collins

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
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• Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.

  

  King Tuff
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• So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

  

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