George Lloyd Quotes
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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I don't think I would have made 'Blank Project; if I hadn't made 'Cherry Thing.' I think that was a real rebirth in a way, and a remembrance of how I like to make music best, the most. Like being in a more chaotic place, maybe. Like a place of making and being creative where the mistakes can be left in.
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Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be Before your time Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight Too bad but it's the life you lead You're so ahead of yourself That you forfeit what you need Though you can see when you're wrong.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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A well begun is half ended.
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As a pop musician, as someone who makes songs, the best ideas are the simplest. They come, and that's the lightning bolt moment.
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The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
