George Karl Quotes
Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
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All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.
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Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.
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I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to be at least a white male of his generation over the years. Endlessly, he's sung about the stuff that I really care about. He's put into words the feelings that hit you at different transitional moments in life.
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Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
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No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.
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When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"
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Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
