Dennis Washington Quotes
People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I don't like allegories.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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I've grown a lot as a singer and a songwriter, but also as a person. I communicate better with my band, and our relationships are stronger and closer.
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Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations.
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A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
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People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person.
