George Mason Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I like being unconventional.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
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Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.
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When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.
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The world is always in movement.
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We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
