George Leonard Quotes
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy. In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by envisioning the worst.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.
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The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.
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Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
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The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
