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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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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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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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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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 love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.
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Be natural and use your head.
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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The commercialism may wash off sometime later.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
