George Graham Vest Quotes
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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Being evil is easy.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.
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Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.
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The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.
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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
