George Verwer Quotes
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.
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If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
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As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.
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In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.
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More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
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We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
