George Washington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life.
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We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.
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I'm usually always a big fan of the people that I'm working with, because I get to work with big people.
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Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
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Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
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A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.
