George Thorogood Quotes
Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.
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People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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The world changed on September 11, 2001.
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One thing that probably is unique at Activision is that we really spend a lot of time up front with our audiences, and in big quantities and with a very thoughtful process, to really try and draw out from them what it is that they would like to play. So we have a pretty good sense going in what the expectation of the audience is.
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Sometimes, when I'm scolding the kids, I sound just like my mom. I'm like, 'How did Jonetta get in here?'
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Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
