George A Tice Quotes
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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My passion for music is one of my greatest loves.
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Any normal candidate who mocked the disabled or made crude reference to a woman's menstrual cycle or dabbled in 9/11 conspiracy theories would be out of the race. Trump's fans remain. And wait for more.
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
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Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.
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In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
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Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
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I try to take my interests and make them my work.
