George McGovern Quotes
There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
Quotes to Explore
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: 'For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana.'
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If you track your organization's creativity by the number of brainstorms on your calendar, you're missing out. It's more important to capture those unplanned sparks of inspiration that so often come when we're cooking dinner, taking a shower, or commuting to work.
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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
