George McGovern Quotes

I never even had the time to read novels.

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• Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Him

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Luxury

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Culture
  • You
  • See

• Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Way
  • You
  • Will

• My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Society
  • College

• When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • Men
  • Different
  • Yesterday

• Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Fall

• Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Loved
  • First Time

• I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • Time

• I never even had the time to read novels.

  

  George McGovern
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