George Gilfillan Quotes
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
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You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
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I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
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Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
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The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.
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The operators should be able to manage the scene.
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Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.
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Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
