George Pataki Quotes
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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What is important is to win.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.
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I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
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We want you to pay attention.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
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Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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I had a really lovely childhood, but I wasn't the easiest kid to live with.
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In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There's a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There's a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
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As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.
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I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
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With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.
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People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.
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I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
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They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
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I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.
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When I was 28 years old, I thought it would be great to have a movie about my life. I was egotistical and self-centered.
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I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.
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We have a reliable computerized network devoted to counterterrorist activities.
