George Pendle Quotes
If ever there had been a place to begin a religion, it was Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
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I never said half the things I said.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.
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The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
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I used to get up at five in the morning and play cricket.
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Budgets are matters of priority and prioritizing. It's a high priority.
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The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors.
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I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.
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Philosophy precedes a religion in the time.
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Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.
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What a man finds circa se or sub se is overwhelming in amount, what he finds in se is embarassing in its obscurity, but when from his own being he would obtain light as to what is supra se, then indeed he finds himself face to face with a dark and somewhat terrifying mystery. The trouble is that he is himself involved in the mystery. If, in any true sense, man is an image of God, how should he know himself without knowing God? But if it is really of God that he is an image, how should he know himself?
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If ever there had been a place to begin a religion, it was Los Angeles in the first half of the twentieth century.
