George McGovern Quotes
When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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All I ever aim to do is make beautiful evening wear.
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The smallest act has repercussions for the universe.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.
