George Steiner Quotes
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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I like to discover new things.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.
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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
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My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
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It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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When I was 12, I had an operation at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and they corrected the curving in my spine. I've got two 12-inch rods and eight screws going up my back keeping me straight, and they fuse together with my spine, so now I can't really live without them.
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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
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As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.
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At 17, I became a member of the Boston Repertory Theatre. I had an opportunity pretty quickly and performed with the theater for six years.
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If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
