George McGovern Quotes
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I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver.
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Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.
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This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.
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I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.
