George MacDonald Quotes
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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My great uncle was in 'Dad's Army.' And I don't know if Americans will know that. It was a hugely popular show in England.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
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They gave me powers of thought and memory far beyond anything natural evolution would have given me, but that doesn't give them the right to decide the meaning of my life as if I were some dream. I decide the meaning. If my life is a dream then it's my dream, I'm the dreamer.
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Amnesty, n. The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered - now I have only one doubt left - which of the twain was God?
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Profiles aren't journalism.
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Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.
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Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night.
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I can count on one hand the number of times I've done SoulCycle. I was not soul'd.
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A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.
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I didn't expect all that. I'm proud of myself.
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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Marriage is wonderful.
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We need to discover a common middle ground in which all of these things, from the city to the wilderness, can somehow be encompassed in the word “home.”
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
