George Whitman Quotes
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It's about learning how to be your own super hero, put on your own cape, and be a well-rounded individual.
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My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
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The business of books is the business of life.
