Eddie George Quotes

The man, to me, ... is a legend.

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• Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Help
  • Sense
  • Bewildering

• Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Look

• The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Moments

• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Movie
  • High
  • Black

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Lost
  • Trust
  • Care

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Movie
  • Sense

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Attention
  • Language
  • Dislike

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Future
  • Man
  • Bear

• Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for - life by keeping eyes, mind and heart open to nature, men, books, experience - and what he gathers serves him at unexpected moments in unforeseen ways.

  

  Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The man, to me, ... is a legend.

  

  Eddie George
  • Man
  • Legend