George R. R. Martin Quotes
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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America is big enough to accommodate differences of opinion and practice on religious and social beliefs. As a nation and as a society, we must reject discrimination, forcefully and without asterisks. Most importantly, as president, I will zealously defend the Constitution of the United States and all of its amendments.
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I wish I didn't have to introduce the following information, on reptilian shapeshifting because it complicates the story and opens me up to mass ridicule. But I'm not afraid to go where information leads me
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Let us do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over we will all watch the sun go down as we all must, and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.
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I don't feel that much fear.
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Writing is hard. I mean, I sit there and work at it.
