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 was shooting for 'Bobby Jasoos' when I was offered 'Khamoshiyan.'
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Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.
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Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'
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I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here.
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The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
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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.
