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.
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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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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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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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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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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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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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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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When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the judge who sentenced me, that line is called a 'medical degree'.
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There is scarcely a town or school in Russia from which boys have not run away to the war. Hundreds of girls have gone off in boys' clothes and tried to pass themselves off as boys and enlist as volunteers, and several have got through, since the medical examination is only a negligible formality required in one place, forgotten in another.
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If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
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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.
