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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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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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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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.
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After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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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.
