George Gilfillan Quotes
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.
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I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
