George Pataki Quotes
On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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They had no game plan for losing. . . . Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete . . . get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
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Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.
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Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?
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On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.
