George Kaiser Quotes
If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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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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There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.
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We exalted that Michael Phelps-consecrated water. Rose petals were strewn in Peyton Manning's path when he retired. But hey, that's natural. As we should, we admire those in any craft, no less so in sports, who appear out of nowhere to achieve remarkable feats.
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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
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Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.
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Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.
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If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.
