George McGovern Quotes

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

George McGovern

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
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• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
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• I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Children
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• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
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• My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
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• The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
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• When you get the respect of the fans, it's very hard not to be happy.

  

  Yaya Toure
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• If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

  

  B. B. King
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• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
  • Death
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• I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

  

  R. Kelly
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• People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Live, for I love you!

  

  Edmond Rostand
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• One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

  

  Marie Curie
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• I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.

  

  Ornette Coleman
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• There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red wine and being full of yourself, and so, for a long time, the way I felt about writing was too private. I felt it too important and didn't want to be teased about it. So I lied about it.

  

  Eleanor Catton
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• I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

  

  Micheal Ray Stevenson
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• Our age is an age of moderate virtue And moderate vice

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Age

• I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

  

  Jane Fonda

• If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

  

  George McGovern