George M. Cohan Quotes
I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
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If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
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It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
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I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
