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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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry. Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.
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It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.
