George Smathers Quotes
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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We are all terminal.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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Anytime you have an injury, you're going to be iffy about stuff.
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I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
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Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.
