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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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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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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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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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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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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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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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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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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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
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I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.
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You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
