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.

George Mikes

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• Television
• Educational
• Poison
• Speaking
• West
• Gangster
• Embezzled

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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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• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
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• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
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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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• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

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• I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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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.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
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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.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
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• Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

  

  Chelsea Handler
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• I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

  

  Jason Isaacs

• By common consent, most European countries support the maintenance of robust welfare states and are comfortable with taxation systems that support them.

  

  Charles Kennedy
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• It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

  

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  • Great
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• Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.

  

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• I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

  

  William Broad Generation X
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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.

  

  George Mikes
  • School
  • Television
  • Educational