Georges Carpentier Quotes
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things like: 'Kane, Prom?' We have a fun, young team, and girls are asking you to the prom and giving you their numbers.
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Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
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I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it's all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort - but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that's still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do - that's a huge piece to moving your life forward.
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'They're drunk sods, sir, but they're the best Soldiers in the world. The very best.' And he meant it. They were the elite, the damned, the Rifles. They were Soldiers in green. They were Sharpe's Rifles.
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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
