George S. Kaufman Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
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But she did not know where the doubt, the fear, began. It had always been there, but she had sought to rearrange it within herself; and in the constant rearrangement was transformation.
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Housework has all along been the business of life; novels have been squeezed into the odd times.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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I've never had any complaints yet!
