George Jackson Quotes
It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
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If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.
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In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
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Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
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The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.
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We are not afraid to be entertainers.
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.
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You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
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For what did the creator prepare me, Why did he so terribly contradict The hopes of my youth?
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Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
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But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
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Once again, the European Union recalls that it is absolutely against terror and that these actions kill the hopes of peace.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.
