George Mikes Quotes
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
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All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them.
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Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
