George Gascoigne Quotes
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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My mom got 11 kids. We struggled.
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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I'm really more of an executive.
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Our nation's memory is long and our reach is far.
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If, then, God is always in that good state in which we sometimes are, this compels our wonder; and if in a better this compels it yet more. And God is in a better state. And life also belongs to God; for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God's self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal.
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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
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Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.
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My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.
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New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane.
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We should not silence our nation's researchers.
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At Coinbase, our first priority is to ensure that we operate the most secure and compliant digital currency exchange in the world.
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I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.
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I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister....It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
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Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.
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And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]
