George McGovern Quotes
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
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I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
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My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.
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Before we had the Internet, I organized a fax campaign against the first Iraq war. We blasted faxes to the hotel where James Baker and Tariq Aziz were having their final meeting before the two sides went to war. Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
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I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
