George C. Kimble Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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My scientific pursuits have led to many opportunities and responsibilities beyond those of simply doing research. For example, as a beginning graduate student, it never occurred to me that the life of a scientist could involve so much travel, something that I have always loved.
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I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
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Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.
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Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
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The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
