George A Tice Quotes
It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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The reason is not simply because of my opinion of him. It is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war there when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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Je parvins à faire s'évanouir dans mon esprit toute l'espérance humaine.
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It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
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I live in the moment.
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I'm not somebody who no matter where I go there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience's ticket into the party.
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People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.
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I've always been passionate about fashion.
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I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.
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At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.
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I don't want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.
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Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
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I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.
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Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.
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I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.
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CEOs can stay too long.
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It takes the passage of time before an image of a commonplace subject can be assessed. The great difficulty of what I attempt is seeing beyond the moment; the everydayness of life gets in the way of the eternal.
