George Pelecanos Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.
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I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
