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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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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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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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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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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I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.
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With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child.
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Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.
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At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.
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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.
