George Washington Quotes
An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.
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Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.
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It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
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I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
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Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
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I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.
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I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.
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Things happen. Life happens. Sometimes we draw things to us. Maybe it’s fate. I can’t tell you, Matthew. But it seems that for whatever reason, this one’s yours.
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The convertible note is a useful and common financing structure in Silicon Valley. It's a form of debt that is really more a type of equity - one where the valuation hasn't been determined yet.
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Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.
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An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
