George Whitman Quotes
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OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
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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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So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.
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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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In my pictures, you never know, that’s the mystery. It’s just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It’s fashion in disguise.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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The laboratory work was the province of Dr Searle, an explosive, bearded Nemesis who struck terror into my heart. If one made a blunder one was sent to ‘stand in the corner’ like a naughty child. He had no patience with the women students. He said they disturbed the magnetic equipment, and more than once I heard him shout ‘Go and take off your corsets!’ for most girls wore these garments then, and steel was beginning to replace whalebone as a stiffening agent. For all his eccentricities, he gave us excellent training in all types of precise measurement and in the correct handling of data.
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Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
