Blagden George Quotes

#1. I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

Al Franken

#2. I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.

Roddy Doyle

#3. I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Bobby Fischer

#4. Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

Helen Humphreys

#5. Are you prepared to have quite
obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me
chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own
two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?

A.A. Milne

#6. There are assholes among us, good people, try not to step in their shit ... it's deep

Emma Paul

#7. My God, rich people have the time to praise You if they want to, but the poor people are so busy, accept their work as praise because, my God, they don't have time for everything.

Garrison Keillor

#8. Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Michael Scheuer

#9. The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

George Blagden

#10. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

Maya Angelou

#11. Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you're never disappointed.

George Blagden

#12. I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.

George Blagden

#13. Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.

George Blagden

#14. Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

George Blagden

#15. By privately endorsing Seward's spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly chaotic and potentially devastating situation.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#16. When I was in Greenough, Montana, I came across a bear cub. I was off this path, and I thought, If there's a bear cub, that means there's a mother bear somewhere nearby. So I doubled back. If I'd kept going, I'm sure they would have eventually found my sneakers, and that's about it.

Al Roker

#17. I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

Pat Conroy

#18. The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

George Blagden

#19. Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar, urban, twentieth-century Thoreau, the quintessential American mind of our time.

Hayden Carruth