George Holland Quotes
Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.
Quotes to Explore
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others’ expense.
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I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.
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Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.
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I do feel like my improv training has helped me throughout my entire audition process only because the idea of 'yes and-ing' applies to everything.
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Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
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If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
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Ezra Furman And The Boy-Friends was a band with a specific mission - to be a really good rock'n'roll band. And we achieved it.
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Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
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We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels. We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.
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Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.
