George McGovern Quotes

I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

George McGovern

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• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Beautiful
  • Small
  • Unique

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Learn

• People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Attitude

• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Path
  • Yourself
  • Obstacles

• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Life
  • Society
  • Punishment

• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • First
  • Read

• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow

• Work is making a living out of being bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Work
  • Living
  • Bored

• I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Always

• I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Young

• I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!

  

  Trevor George Smith Jr.
  • Good
  • Real
  • Picture

• I think one of the mistakes actors make is we're so focused on what we're going to say.

  

  Mariska Hargitay

• I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

  

  Andra Day
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

  

  Edward Albert
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Exercise

• I always look tired, but I'm not. I just look like I am.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Looks
  • Tired

• I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.

  

  George McGovern
  • Sleep
  • Tired