George McGovern Quotes
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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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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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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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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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
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If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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Like, I get along with everybody. I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.
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When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
