George Whitman Quotes
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
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I don't like being lied to.
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I'm not really into rap.
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I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.
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Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
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Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
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So this is me swallowing my pride,Standing in front of youSaying I'm sorry for that night.And I go back to December all the time.Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,Wishing that I realized what I had when you were mine.I go back to December, turn around and make it all right.I go back to December all the time.
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What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a film that reflected the age we were living in.
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Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
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Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
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I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
