George Jean Nathan Quotes
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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I really believe that my family's infrequency of getting sick is due to our diet.
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The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.
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Being on United Artists was almost as bad as not being on any label at all. They were the crappiest in the business. All they did was movie soundtracks. Now, they were making an effort to become much hipper - signing people like Bobby Womack and what have you.
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You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it.
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
