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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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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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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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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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I would love to work with Shilpa again. But it would have to be for 'Dill Mill Gayye (DMG)' - that's the only fiction show I'll take up on small screen. I'm extremely faithful to that show. That apart, I'm not likely to do anymore fiction on TV for the time being.
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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.
