George Kaiser Quotes
If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York.
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There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.
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New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
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Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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I worked for a private investigative agency briefly. I rarely had the opportunity to snoop.
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Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around.
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If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
