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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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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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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'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.
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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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Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
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We are a nation built on principles of freedom, and high on the list of freedoms is freedom of religious expression.
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Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!
