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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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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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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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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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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In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
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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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Liquidity problems can occur in central clearing, even if all counterparties have the financial resources to meet their obligations, if they are unable to convert those resources into cash quickly enough.
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Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.
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I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
