George McGovern Quotes
I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
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From my experience, the best advisors help in three ways: encourage you to look at the problem or opportunity from multiple angles; help you balance the tug of the short-term with important long-term priorities; and ask the tough questions you need to know to reach the best solution.
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In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
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In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.
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It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fashion shot - that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that's when I started wearing foundation every day.
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I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
