George P. Shultz Quotes
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
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With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
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There comes a point when you're writing a novel when you're in it so deep that the life of the novel becomes more real to you than life itself. You have to write your way out of it; once you're there, it's too late to abandon.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
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I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the world into something that offers us hope - and I believe in that.
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My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
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But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
