George Washington Quotes
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
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The only weights I lift are my dogs.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
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We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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One thing I'd tell an up-and-coming singer is to never rely on other people for anything. The more self-sufficient you can be, the better off you'll be.
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Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are they all good.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
