George William Curtis Quotes
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
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When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.
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Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.
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You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.
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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
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The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.
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I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
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It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
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I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.
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In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details.
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Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.
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Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
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When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.
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The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
