George Vandeman Quotes
There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.
Quotes to Explore
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing.
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The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.
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I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
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Liberal censors are the worst. I don't remember any trouble with 'Serial Mom' or 'Cecil B. Demented' or any of them. Except 'Cry Baby.'
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I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
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Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
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Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
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There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.
