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I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.


George Hickenlooper

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GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL