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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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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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 am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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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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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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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 guess I've got a smart wife.
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What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.
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It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.
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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.
