Jorge Garcia Quotes
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
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I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.
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Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
