George M. Cohan Quotes
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.
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Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.
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I care deeply about the direction of our country.
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I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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You gotta show me how show me how.
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Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!
