George Gregan Quotes
I would not have put myself through the week I have been through if I was considering retirement.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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The company that creates one global social graph will be very important going forward. It will be Facebook, with maybe 2-3 local social networks able to sustain competition long term.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.
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Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
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I would not have put myself through the week I have been through if I was considering retirement.
