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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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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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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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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Senior academic condemns ‘deluded’ supporters of GM food as being ‘anti-science’ and ignoring evidence of dangers (4 March 2015)
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The peasantry, having lifted itself up out of its medieval status, cannot politically generate it's own rage. - Speech in Paris, 1934
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I have people I love and trust on my team. And I'm lucky my family is incredibly talented in a variety of ways.
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When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.
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I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.
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You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.
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Hip-hop kind of absorbed rock in terms of the attitude and the whole point of why rock was important music. Young people felt like rock music was theirs, from Elvis to the Beatles to the Ramones to Nirvana. This was theirs; it wasn't their parents'. I think hip-hop became the musical style that embraces that mentality.
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He's just a freshman and we have a lot of depth this year. I think there's such an adjustment for freshmen from a strength and physical standpoint. He's doing a good job with that. He's a complete player. He just has to continue to improve and get himself used to this level.
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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
