George Saunders Quotes
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.
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My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders.
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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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It is frustrating, but all I can do is just keep winning, and hopefully, people will stand up and take notice eventually.
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Everybody is overlooking me. I just want to show the world that, hey, he is in there with a live dog. He is not in there with a little puppy. He is in there with a live dog. I am going to show the world that he belongs with the best; he wants to fight the best. This is the guy that has heart and balls that gives everything in the ring, that's what he wants.
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The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.
