George Richard Marek Quotes
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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I am afraid of blood, but for some reason often I put blood in my photos... I don't know why.
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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If you want to eat chocolate or cakes, you have to eat it in the morning, for breakfast or lunch - don't eat it in the night.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
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It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Corruption is simply crime without conscience.
