George Pierce Baker Quotes
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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We were descended from royalty.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I have no family to take care of.
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And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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It is one thing to think gold has some marvelous store of value because man has no way of inventing more gold or getting it very easily, so it has the advantage of rarity. Believe me, man is capable of somehow creating more bitcoin... They tell you there are rules and they can't do it. Don't believe them.
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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.