George M. Cohan Quotes
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the emotional life of the character.
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
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Anything you can imagine, you can create.
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This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.
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You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.
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The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
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The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
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I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.
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There is no problem for which the instruction to love more is not the solution.
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The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
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There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
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Michael held me when I got inside, because I was shaking all over. That felt so good. Warm all the way down. Did I mention Michael’s feet? They’re all the way sexy, and he’s always barefoot – he hates shoes. I wish he hated pants and shirts, too.
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I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.
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Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
