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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Little boys have amazing minds.
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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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Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.
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I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
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I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.
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I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers.
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I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.
