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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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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I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did.
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I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
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I try to save being angry for the really important moments - for special occasions.
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In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.
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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.
