George McGovern Quotes
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
Quotes to Explore
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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The minute I know it's real to the minute we start shooting, I will work on the script, breaking it down and working on the character, doing as much research as I possibly can to the point where I feel like I eat, sleep and breathe it without looking at a page. Then I go in and try to forget all of it and just be there.
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I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used.
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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
