George Singleton Quotes
I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
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Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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What was the good at having an ideal if everyone is trying to beat everyone else at admitting how impossible it is to achieve it.
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
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We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
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This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.
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I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself.
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I don't smoke because I like to do so, but because it makes me pay cigarette taxes, which helps build roads and water supplies.
