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Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work. ↗

— George Clooney

#done #films #haven #i #most

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.' ↗

— George Clooney

#correct #day #everything #hardest #i

They say I was a bad Batman, that it was my fault, that I buried the franchise. But the truth is, it was a big project. I was pretty intimidated in that world. I did the best I could in the situation I was given. ↗

— George Clooney

#batman #best #big #buried #could

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. ↗

— Charles V

#emperor #ever #me #name #struck

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now. ↗

— George Clooney

#life #make #mark #now #only

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#american #atlantic #attitude #between #exaggerate

But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often hungry and cold, I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered was a lifelong membership in a respected artificial extended family. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#knowledge #education

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#fighting #happen #ideological #struggle #thing

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#behind #changed #credit #does #every

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits