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I really want people to come and discover new artists, to revisit old friends and to just kind of revel in this ... opportunity to see more 20th-century art from our collection than has been on view probably in decades.


George Shackelford

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TED SHACKELFORD And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
TED SHACKELFORD But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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DAN SHACKELFORD It might be a case of too much in a short period of time.
DAN SHACKELFORD We'll probably keep going higher in yield.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
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GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
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GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
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GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
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GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
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GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
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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 It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL