George Washington Quotes
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
Quotes to Explore
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
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All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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I think of Bret Hart as somebody who held the Intercontinental championship like it was the World Heavyweight championship. Every title match he was in felt important, like it was the most important thing on the show. The way he carried himself and the matches he had, it was just everything I thought a champion should be.
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My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.
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Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.
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Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
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To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
