George Mason Quotes
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
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Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
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As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can't do it later in life, and it's something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
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You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
