George P. Shultz Quotes
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film – now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.
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I am very much a Republican.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.
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It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.
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Semiconductor research and the Nobel Prize in physics seem to be contradictory since one may come to the conclusion that such a complicated system like a semiconductor is not useful for very fundamental discoveries.
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
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Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
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I want my grandchildren to be proud of me. That's the main thing.
