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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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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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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Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.
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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
