Georges Rodenbach Quotes
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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It's weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.
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The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
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The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
