George Li Quotes
Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.
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I like Drake's stuff.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you.
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There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.
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I'm never going to stop making music. I couldn't.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.
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Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.
