George Seldes Quotes
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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Coming in and out of Hollywood for pilot season, I may have to thicken my accent or hear that, physically, I'm not Latino. I not only am, but there's another 50,000 people who look exactly like me.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
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No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
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I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
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God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.
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I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.
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I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
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I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
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People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
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All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
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The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious.
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A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.
