George Robinson Quotes
In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.
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Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
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If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.
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I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.
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It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience.
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I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.
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We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.
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Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
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A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.
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I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.
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In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
