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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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
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La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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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.
