George Dawson Quotes
Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything I would change about my life.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.
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Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
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I'm the smallest man in show business, and I've got the smallest bird in Britain nesting in my garden.
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Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything I would change about my life.
