George Whitman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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In summers, while growing up in India, we often slept in the courtyard under the stars.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I think he is as good as anyone.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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I talk too much. I eat too much.
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I always equate wrestling to having been in the Marine Corps.
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
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The energy that gets the baby in is the energy that gets the baby out.
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I'm living in a world where there are LGBTQ straight alliances at high schools. I feel pretty psyched on that.
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No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
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Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.
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It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc
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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
