Winston Groom Quotes
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.
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I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.
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My mother would take me to Tirumala right from when I was 7 years old. I used to go along with her every time.
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My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
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I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.
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The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.
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Gas is almost a give-away in the U.S. at the moment. They've gone for fracking in a big way. This is what makes me very cross with the greens for trying to knock it... Let's be pragmatic and sensible and get Britain to switch everything to methane. We should be going mad on it.
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Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?
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When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.
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Most people make the mistake of over-training the biceps and under-training the triceps.
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A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.
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The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.
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I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
