George Papandreou Quotes
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Our great American writers were all newspaper people.
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Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
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I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.
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I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.
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I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.
