George McGovern Quotes

I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

George McGovern

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

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• I've been married over 50 years of my life.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
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• My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
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• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

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• Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.

  

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• I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
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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.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.

  

  Jack Kingston
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• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
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• Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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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.

  

  Vidya Balan
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• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

  

  Sally Ride
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• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• My guess is many top athletes, distance runners included, use performance-enhancing drugs, enough so that the problem must be tackled.

  

  Bill Rodgers
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• You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a Kevin Hot-Dog movie.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
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• That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

  

  Jenny Lewis
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• We've been trained to spend money since we were born with all these commercials with toys and G.I. Joes and Transformers. But there's so many things in the supermarket, there's so many things on television that automatically, when you turn it on, are saying, 'Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy! Buy!'

  

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• I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

  

  George McGovern
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