George W. S. Trow Quotes

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

George W. S. Trow

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• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Independent

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Me
  • Space
  • Myself

• I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.

  

  Barbara Windsor
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• I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

  

  Vikram Seth
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  • Obsession
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• The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Bad

• I want to take a more international direction with my career.

  

  Maluma
  • Career
  • Want
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• I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Work

• She was starting to feel a little like a hamburger at a dieters’ convention. Nobody was likely to snack on her, but absolutely everybody noticed she was edible.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
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• If they persist with it, they will be dealt with according to law.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Law
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• Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Life
  • Work
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• I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Good
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• She only knows headfirst. Shelley knows one way to play, and that's full speed.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Way
  • Play
  • Shelley

• Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Religion

• Every social trait labelled masculine or feminine is in truth a human trait. It is our human right to develop and contribute our talents whatever our race, sex, religion, ancestry, age. Human rights are indivisible!

  

  Wilma Scott Heide
  • Age
  • Talent

• I would like to do a sports movie.

  

  Sean Durkin
  • Movie
  • Sports

• I call 2015 a year of deconstruction. I needed to deconstruct myself, my businesses, and find all of the holes in my empire. I had to find holes and fill them with people who could do it better.

  

  Michelle Phan
  • Businesses
  • Holes
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• I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

  

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  • Up
  • Food
  • Sex

• Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

  

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  • Thing
  • Old

• I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Long
  • Done
  • Business

• Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

  

  George W. S. Trow
  • Kill
  • Hat
  • Protective