George Weigel Quotes
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.
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Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'
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It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
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Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.
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I have times when I doubt what I'm doing. When those moments hit, I think about how grateful I am to be able to do what I do every day. It was harder when I started because I didn't see the response, but now I'm out there playing for people and seeing them happy, which makes it all worthwhile.
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I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.
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To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
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You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.
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The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.
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On a book like 'X-Men,' you have to stay true to the established fiction, working with editors to ensure continuity, sometimes across multiple titles.
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If fans come up to me, I talk to them.
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I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."
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In his ignorance of the whole truth, each person maintains his own arrogant point of view.
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Veterans Day is a time to celebrate the men and women who have worn this nation's uniform and to honor their service.
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Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.
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The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.
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Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.
