George W. S. Trow Quotes
The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.
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I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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God knows what lives in me in place of me.
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There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
