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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.
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Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
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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.
