George Sewell Quotes
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'
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My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
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My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.
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Live every minute as if it’s your last, so when you’re my age, you have no regrets.
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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Faith for me is more like a conversation than a sentence with an exclamation point at the end. It’s like living and breathing; there’s always more to learn.
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
