George Hincapie Quotes
Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I’d become.
Quotes to Explore
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing, but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.
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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.
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I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
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As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom.
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I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.
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I am such a 'True Detective' fan. I was anticipating it each Sunday as it came. I'm kind of a sci-fi fan. I was really hooked on the 'Battlestar Galactica' series. I think I owned every box set of 'Battlestar Galactica.' I also really love 'Bob's Burgers.'
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A charming woman is a busy woman.
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Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
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You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.
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The apocalypse is not around the corner.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
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Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I’d become.
