George Washington Quotes
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I've always tried to stay fit, but I'm a little guy. I'm 5-foot-7.
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It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material.
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There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the height of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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Police figures show that, every month, more than 40 people nationwide commit suicide due to their escalating debts.
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When Paul was taken in chains from his filthy Roman dungeon and beheaded at the order of the opulent madman Nero, two representatives of humanity faced off, one of the best and one of the worst. One lived for prosperity on earth, the other didn’t. One now lives in prosperity in heaven, the other doesn’t. We remember both men for what they truly were, which is why we name our sons Paul and our dogs Nero.
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Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!
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Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.
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The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.
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In the restaurant business, as opposed to the theater, center orchestra is an 8 P. M. reservation. Orchestra on the side is 7 or 8:30. Mezzanine is 6 and 9. But people don't take it personally when they call the theater and can't get what they want.
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It is sweet that people want to know everything about my wedding, but they should also respect my privacy.
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As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.
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So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.
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...the fire doesn't know for who is burning.
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Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day.
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If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.
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I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.
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A RIPE EXPERIENCE OF GERMAN pillows in country places leads me to urge the intending traveller to be sure to take his own. The native pillows are mere bags, in which feathers may have been once. There is no substance in them at all. They are of a horrid flabbiness. And they have, of course, the common drawback of all public pillows, they are haunted by the nightmares of other people. A pillow, it is true, takes up a great deal of room in one’s luggage.
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To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
