George Mason Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.
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Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.
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I look forward to joining the great team at Ericsson and work closely with existing and new customers around the world.
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When we were growing up, I got kicked out of Timbaland's house every day. He was the DJ for my brother's rap group in junior high school. So I was 7, and while Tim's DJ'ing and my brother's rapping, I'd be upstairs dancing.
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We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
