George Gerbner Quotes
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.
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My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.
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The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
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The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.
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Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week. You give her your room, and you both sleep on the lumpy studio couch. The fifth year: Your mother sleeps on the lumpy studio couch. The tenth year: You send the children to mother.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
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We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.
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It takes a tremendous act of courage to admit to yourself that you are not defective in any way whatsoever.
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I've never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I'm looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.
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I'm very optimistic about what can come out of this, provided we enter it with the right spirit.
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Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
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I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.
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The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.
