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I don't mean to sound - I don't want it to come out funny, but I don't like show business. I love - I love acting in films. I love it.
Gene Wilder
Love
Funny
Business
Films
Out
Come
Like
Sound
Want
Mean
Acting
Show
Show Business
I didn't want to be a comedian. I wanted to be an actor - maybe a comic actor, but a real actor - by real, I mean not a comedian. I wanted to be an actor.
Gene Wilder
Comedian
Comic
Real
Maybe
Want
Wanted
Mean
Actor
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
George Ayittey
Democracy
Voting
Understanding
Group
Take
Because
Does
Essence
Just
Just Because
Decisions
Mean
Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!
George C. Wolfe
Art
You
Mess
Hamlet
Anytime
Mean
Create
I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.
George Carey
Great
Commitment
People
Back
Our
Way
Pleasure
Kind
Great Pleasure
Look
Persecuted
Happened
Mean
Who
Sudan
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
George Clooney
Life
You
Age
Happy
Long
Young
Live
Believe
Enough
Because
Ultimately
Friends
Very
Die
Endings
Young Age
Mean
Your
Travels
Thing
Watch
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.
George Clooney
Time
Good
Character
Me
You
Suffering
Tough
Good Time
Every
Think
Every Time
Say
Tortured
Guys
Had
Idea
Come
Supposed
Oh
Mean
Us
Confuses
Really
Who
Rotten
Even
Film
Suffer
I mean this record does not sound like somebody's maiden voyage.
George Duke
Somebody
Record
Maiden
Like
Voyage
Does
Sound
Mean
There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.
George Foreman
You
Business
Integrity
Money
Big
Back
Out
Guys
Main
Make
Understand
Always
How
Overnight
Lot
Contract
Big Money
Square
Mean
Successful
Who
Evaporates
Found
Asset
Millions
If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.
George Lucas
Love
Beautiful
You
Films
Giant
System
Impact
Something
Small
Between
Sound
Huge
Huge Difference
Get
Difference
Screen
Want
Theater
Mean
Really
Full
Electric
Watching
Mediocre
I will make the argument that we are poorly adapted to our current environment. I mean, we did not evolve to sit all day and be exposed to giant amounts of really tasty food.
George M. Church
Food
Day
Will
Argument
Sit
Our
All Day
Giant
Evolve
Environment
Make
Did
Current
Tasty
Mean
Poorly
Really
Exposed
Amount
Adapted
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
Knowledge
Possess
We Cannot
Recognition
Embrace
Eating
Something
Absent
Devour
Expect
Salutation
Cannot
Mean
I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).
George Saunders
Life
Myself
Real Life
Own
Older
Believe
Find
Finding
My Own
Redemption
Does
Real
Get
Getting
Happen
Stories
Mean
Much
Cool
Believer
Desire
I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.
George Shearing
Time
You
Better
Think
Assume
Our
Once
Pleased
Record
Something
Most
Learn
Said
Always
Duke
Duke Ellington
Current
Mean
Next
Next Time
Who
Those Tea Party people are crazy. I mean, they're lunatics. They close down the government, throw people out of their jobs - hundreds of thousands of people - and they say that they're doing it ultimately in the interest of creating jobs.
George Takei
Government
Crazy
People
Party
Tea
Down
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Say
Those
Out
Jobs
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Throw
Doing
Ultimately
Close
Interest
Mean
Creating
Tea Party
They Say
Lunatics
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. Bush
Religion
You
Patience
Judge
Strong
Discipline
Achieve
Somebody
Sense
Think
Kind
Religious
Purpose
Perhaps
Stability
Mean
Created
Certain
Roots
Actions
Helps
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.
George Wald
Buy
Future
Good
Generation
Care
Not Good Enough
Breakfast
Enough
This Generation
Unless
Those
Give
Foods
Tender
Supply
Sure
Does
Educations
Expensive
Anything
Loving
Mean
Things
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
George William Curtis
You
Mistake
Women
Men
Big
Believe
Horny
Ten
More
Like
Reached
Make
Big Mistake
Than
Did
Any
Just
Puberty
Mean
Turn
Sudden
Twenty-One
Actually
Fourteen
Thirteen
Even though you're the best, it doesn't mean you're not going to lose. And it doesn't mean nobody's going to beat you.
Georges St-Pierre
Best
You
Lose
Though
Beat
Nobody
Going
Mean
Even
When I say that I'm a grade-A student in motocross, I mean that I can sit on a bike and ride it. But I'm confident that, with time, I could do a 12 o'clock.
Georgia King
Time
Ride
Sit
Say
Could
Student
Confident
Mean
Bike
I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.
Georgina Chapman
Director
Enormous
Extraordinary
He
Most
Fan
Ron
Mean
I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.
Gerald Scarfe
Me
You
Nothing
Say
Those
Characters
Shall
Develop
Had
Like
Know
Looked
Exists
Get
Script
Mean
Sent
Working
Disney
Film
Hercules
Imagine
Quite honestly, I think that if you are making a lot of television programs with a central character, then ultimately it can become boring if you know nothing about them. I personally want to know, or get to know, things about a character. It doesn't mean to say that they still can't have a certain mystery about them.
Geraldine McEwan
Character
You
Become
Nothing
Think
Honestly
Programs
Say
Television
Boring
About
Mystery
Know
Making
Still
Ultimately
Lot
Get
Quite
Want
Central
Mean
Them
Personally
Then
Certain
Things
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.
Gerard Arpey
Great
Business
Job
Our
Those
Great Job
Advantages
Most
Make
Replicate
Cannot
Again
Mean
Much
Many
Second
Strengths
Basics
Competitors
By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from.
Gerard Butler
First
Singing
Windows
Voice
Point
Had
Taking
Come
Shatter
Know
Singing Lessons
Surprised
Where
After
Mean
Really
Lessons
Started
Session
Third
What does art mean to me? I never really think about the 'meaning' of art. Yet, obviously, that's what I do.
Gerard Malanga
Art
Me
Think
About
Never
Obviously
Does
Mean
Meaning
Meaning Of
Really
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