George McGovern Quotes
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I am a just man.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
