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My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff.

~Geoffrey Canada

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My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.

~Geoffrey Hinton

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It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.

~Geoffrey Rush

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A huge part of what we do as actors is learning to ignore the camera, as if it's not even there, while simultaneously being very aware of the camera and what it's capturing, because you can give the best performance of your life, but if you do it with the back of your head facing the camera, it's going to get cut from the movie.

~Geoffrey Rush

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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Academic Acquaintances After Back Circle Experiences First Friendship Friendships Gradually Grow Grown Had Large Looked Made Me Natural New Only Out Should Smile Them Years

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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg

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In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

~Georg Simmel

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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Am Back Beautiful Dublin Ever Front Long Love Most Most Beautiful Mountains Roads Sea Seen Suburbs Think Through Town Truth Truth Is Winding Woods I Think I Am

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