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. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

George Bird Evans

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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.

  

  Flume
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• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
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• I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

  

  Halle Berry
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• What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
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• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Work
  • Music
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• People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Work
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• Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Comfort

• I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • She
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• Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Up
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• I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

  

  Sam Elliott
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• 'I am the table!'

  

  James Hetfield Metallica

• I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie - it was like NASCAR for potheads.

  

  Ann Coulter

• In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

  

  Jerry Kramer
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• To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

  

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• In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

  

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• You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.

  

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• As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Fighting
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  • Never

• As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
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• Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.

  

  Gerard De Nerval
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  • Animal
  • Creatures

• They've put it together, ... They're on a roll. They're tough to stop. We just have to play a perfect game and see what happens.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Game
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  • Play

• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

  

  Evan Esar
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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. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

  

  George Bird Evans
  • Fighting
  • Challenges
  • Creatures