George McGovern Quotes
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.
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The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything - you can be happy, no matter what.
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I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
