George McGovern Quotes
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
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'Are all Polish men as arrogant and intrusive and rude as you?''Few measure up to my standards, but most try.'
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I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.
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I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
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I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe. I am very anxious to go out west next fall & get some employment, but I have not yet decided where.
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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
