George Lakoff Quotes
The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.
Quotes to Explore
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
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It's been a long time coming, but I think this group has proven they are one of the top teams in the nation and that they deserve to be there. We're going down with the idea of having a good time, but when it's game time, we need to be ready to play. With this group of kids, I have no doubt they will be ready.
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When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
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The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.
