George Mikes Quotes
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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If I made a mistake on a piece of content, I'm going to learn from it.
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It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.
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I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
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It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
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Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.
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We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.
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From the age of 4 or 5, I loved to make people laugh.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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Only ugliness is obscene.
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Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
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My diet is very kale-heavy. It's so nutrient-dense. I stay away from fake processed stuff.
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
