George Hackenschmidt Quotes
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Love is more than one thing.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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The American people are frustrated.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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I do what I want. It's because I got booed and picked on that I really don't care anymore.
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
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You must want to - in other words, you must act.
