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George Aiken Quotes

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 20, 1892 - November 19, 1984

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Good People World Bad Way Over

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.

Think Movies Horror Saw Instinct

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

Job Better Long Now Run First

I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?

Good You Want Run Get Just

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

Day Unhappy Complaining More Get

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.

Life Good Music Age Time Rest

Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

Money Think You Growing Bubble Get

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

Bokeem Woodbine

Nature Opportunity Me Learn Acting

It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have fun with what you're doing.

Music Focus Fun Have Fun Doing You

I'm 25, but I was a kid on the set. But everybody was really great.

Great Kid Set Everybody Really

The fans are most important... when it comes to the entertainment industry. They are the ones that matter most, and they should be heard.

Important Entertainment Matter Fans

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

Bible Reading Quotation Imagery Fact

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

Me Generation Place Important Tell

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