She had a lot of business savvy and also a deep conviction that books could intervene when American culture was in crisis.


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I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS
Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE
I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ
I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE
I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE
I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN
The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS
Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN
We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN
Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT
Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY
Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE
Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON