George Washington Bethune Quotes
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.
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I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.
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Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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There is a difference between not understanding and being willfully obtuse.
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‘You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.’
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My principles are the laws of experience.
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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
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Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
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ISIL does something al-Qaida would never imagine: they test people by tasking them.
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Rawlings was a burglar and a thief, but like much of the London underworld he would not have anyone 'trash' his country. It is a fact that convicted traitors in prison, along with child molesters, have to be kept in seclusion because professional 'faces,' if left alone with such a man, are likely to rearrange his component parts.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
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Without thee I am all unblessed, and wholly blessed in thee alone.
