George Pickett Quotes
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
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The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.
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All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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Foreign terrorists are using technology to radicalize Americans at a troubling pace that continues to increase.
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Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.
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You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.
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I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.
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You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.
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Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.
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The value that SoftBank saw in us was that we are a technology company in the mobile Internet space.
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Acting was my first love.
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Your doubts are generated by fear, and fear is a series of distorted thoughts.
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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
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The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices-we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.
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The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.
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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
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I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.
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We'll make a bunker hill of it.
