George Sterling Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
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Course you been hurt. You was born to hurt. What make you wanna forget somethin that important? Power that’s worth somethin -real power!-live an’ grow from the hurt you feed it.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.
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On reason build resolve,that column of true majesty in man.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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I know how to win people over if things aren't going my way.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.
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By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.
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I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar.
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
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What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!