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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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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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 think part of the problem with this world is that we’ve forgotten how to be human beings and what humanity actually means – I think religion dehumanises people. At the base of it, it tells you to believe in something that isn’t flesh and blood, that isn’t a solid form, so straight away it’s taking you away from what you are chemically, physically and biologically. For many things I’m quite passive, but in my ideal world there would be no religious schools. You can teach RE at schools in an informative way, that’s fine, but I don’t think you should mix religion with curricula. I think it’s dumbing down kids, it’s feeding them with storybooks that have no basis in fact. And when you widen that out to a civic society that needs to feed its people, religion cannot provide that. If you’re a religious person and want to do good things in the community then fine, that’s not a problem, but you can do those good things without being religious. Soup kitchens are fine, but you shouldn’t bring religion into the soup kitchen either, they shouldn’t be trying to convert those people unlucky enough to need a soup kitchen in the first place.
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Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
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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.
