George McGovern Quotes

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

George McGovern

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• I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Personality

• If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Help
  • Amazing
  • Influence

• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Common

• Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Understand

• Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idiots

• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Man
  • Hate

• Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Music
  • Think
  • Early

• Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • Music
  • Me

• 'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Funny

• It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Environment

• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Always
  • Process
  • Uncertainty

• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Great
  • Light
  • Universe

• I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Want
  • Audiences

• I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Want
  • Sell
  • Obscure

• A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Author
  • Say

• By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Writing
  • History
  • Age

• The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Opportunity

• While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Women
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The world grows less familiar with every day, and one needs to have a steady constant flame of familiarity one can return to when the dragon airships are gone and the reverse corsets are packed away in oak chests. Any adventure must give away to familiarity of routine, and I look to what lies ahead of me, clear eyed and level headed, knowing that both changes and constancy have their place in the world, and that I can survive either.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Survive
  • Grows
  • Routine

• I love wearing designer pieces with something I found at Target.

  

  Lauren Conrad

• I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

  

  George McGovern