George Bird Evans Quotes
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.
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My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.
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There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
