George McGovern Quotes
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
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Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.
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I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of the access to some of the illegal things on the Internet. I'm just kidding.
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
