George Lindsey Quotes
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
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Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
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The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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We Democrats have got to be strong. When we look weak in a time where people feel insecure, we lose. when people feel uncertain, they'd rather have somebody who's strong and wrong than somebody who's weak and right.
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When I met my wife, my whole life changed on a dime, really quickly and for the better.
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It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.
