George Steiner Quotes
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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I don't want to do only blockbusters.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.
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Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
