George Eiferman Quotes
A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)
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The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
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If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
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Never say anything in a national campaign that anyone might remember.
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China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.
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Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
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A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!
