George Pope Morris Quotes
A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
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It was like the Beatles had arrived, you know. These four elderly ladies, and they were screaming for us-screaming for us. It was wonderful.
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A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.
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When there's anything to steal, I steal
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One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
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There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.
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These problems do not disappear just because we do not hear about them. There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us about the top stories we do hear. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves.... What is the problem? Where is it? How can we help to solve it?
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Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
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Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.
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If I was a political mercenary, I would be using my talents in another line of work.
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The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
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A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.
