George Washington Quotes

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
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• We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

  Indra Devi
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• Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

  

  Gay Talese
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• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
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• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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• If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

  

  Patricia Clarkson
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• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
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• There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.

  

  Kate Moss
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• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
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• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

  Odette Annable
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• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
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• There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

  

  Kate Walsh
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• The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I wasn't going to leave my men, and they were going to protect me.

  

  James McCloughan
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• The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

  

  Freya Stark
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• I love to drive in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota with Mount Rushmore as the central stop.

  

  Dana Perino
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• All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.

  

  R. Kelly
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• In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

  

  George Washington
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