Washington Allston Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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In order to reach home, where you have the guidance of cosmic insight, you must first depart from your present location. You cannot remain in the noisy city of your own vanities and expect to know what to do. Cosmic knowledge and personal vanity do not mingle.
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God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.
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The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
