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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I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting.
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
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It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. When we have the courage and faith to live up to the best we know, we fulfill the purpose for which we came to this earth, and we provide an incentive for others to do the same.
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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
