George Vecsey Quotes

Most descriptions make Beijing sound overbuilt: not a blade of grass left.

George Vecsey

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If we want to make Tiger Woods's or Al Gore's face, the best thing would be to have them come to our light stage so we can scan their faces for our database. But in a couple of hours, all we can do is find a face which looks similar and then correct it.

Jimmy Lai

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The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Jerome Hines

GoodBadWayBad HabitsReplace

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

Angeles Mastretta

WomenFreedomTimeLongLateActing

When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go.

Michael Douglas

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Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson

KnowledgeElectricalTelephoneRadio

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and homemaking.

Dennis Prager

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I don't think capitalism can survive.

Douglas Tompkins

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The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s.

Doug Jones

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The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

Chris Pine

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I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

Brantley Gilbert

GoodAlwaysPlayingStartedKnew

My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.

Bode Miller

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Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

Arsene Wenger

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