George Washington Quotes

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
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• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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• Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
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• I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Attention

• While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; journalism lacked the drama, theatricality and subjective storytelling of theater. It wasn't until I had the idea of making a documentary film about the 1992 presidential campaign that these two passions came together in 'The War Room.'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • World
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• I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

  

  Rachel Roy
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• The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • People
  • War
  • Bad

• His petty syllabi, the sounds that stick, Inevitably modulating, in the blood. And war for war, each has its gallant kind. How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • War
  • Words

• I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research-I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Up
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• Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Different
  • Heart
  • War

• You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
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• A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part in their becoming scientists or at some later date just because they liked the ideas.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Time
  • May
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• When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • War

• So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

  

  Helen McCrory
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  • Children
  • Mean

• Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.

  

  Karl Marx
  • May

• I'm old-fashioned.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead

• What we try to do is to try to put patients first.

  

  Dennis Hastert
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• Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

  

  George Washington
  • War
  • Interesting
  • Attention