George Shearing Quotes
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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Winning the Stanley Cup in '99 was a dream come true. I'll never forget it.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I love being in the ocean. I love the unpredictability of it- size of wave, animals you see, etc.
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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
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I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.
