George W. Jenkins Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I'm not radical.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.
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I am mindful of achieving the right balance in my life and am working hard on that also. To enjoy the little moments of goodness when they appear, to be present with the people I love and to spread light wherever possible.
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I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.
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The harder I worked, the luckier I got.
