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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Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
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Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.
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There is no time like the present.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
