George MacDonald Fraser Quotes
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I'm supposed to make people laugh. We all have that child in us. For many people, that child gets pushed into a corner. But if you want to be creative, that little kid can never go away.
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
