George Shinn Quotes
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
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When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
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In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.
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And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.
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All I have are the people.
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As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.
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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
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It's insensitive, inappropriate language, and it's conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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That's my intent. It has been from the beginning and it still is.
