George Croly Quotes
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.
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At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
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Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.
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Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.
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Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.
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My animals are a really important part of my life.
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I never read articles about my books.
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Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we'll train, we'll advise, we'll mentor, and we'll fight, and we'll fight well.
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You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
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When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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I've learned many great leasson from my father. Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
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All history is but a romance, unless it is studied as an example.
