George McGovern Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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I love working in New York.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
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It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice; regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't write
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.
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It's nice not to have to worry about constituents.
