George Gallup Quotes

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

George Gallup

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1901 - July 26, 1984

Topics

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Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

John Burnside

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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John Osborne

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I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Tony Parsons

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In my opinion, Spike Lee is a national cultural treasure - to the black community in particular but to America in general.

Ron Stallworth

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I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

Brit Marling

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I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

Ariel Dorfman

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I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.

Portia Doubleday

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I really wanted the first record to be different from what I'd done with Genesis, so we were trying to do things in different styles.

Peter Gabriel

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When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Noam Chomsky

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I am blessed to count among my friends and colleagues people who are very thoughtful and who deeply care about our country.

Mark Goulston

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It all started when I went to this model search in Charlotte when I was 18. That's when I met all these agents and realized I could do it, and I won! I met a photographer at the competition who persuaded me to sign with a different agency than the one that was offered to me. So, I started with a small agency and eventually moved up to IMG.

Martha Hunt

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We support regional generation, particularly for nuclear. It's just a large investment. We think it's something a community comes around to make those investments work, and South Carolina is very committed to nuclear generation.

Lynn Good

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