George Bird Grinnell Quotes
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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That I am today the face of Louis Vuitton almost seems like a twist of fate. You dream back to front, wanting the rewards before putting the work in. And then you work, get on with life, and just sometimes these childhood dreams have a way of catching up with you. This is a true privilege for which I am eternally grateful.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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If it's in people's interest to invest in renewables and invest in clean technologies, I'm convinced it will happen.
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I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.
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Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
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We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
