George Washington Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.
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These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.
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I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.
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I have learned to be ready for anything - and be there for my kids. That's what life's all about.
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No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.
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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
