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.

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• The world and life are one. (5.621)

  

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• Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.

  

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• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  

  Karl Kraus
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• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
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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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