George Washington Quotes
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I was a tomboy.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
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There are very few fighters in the ISIS organization in Iraq and Syria coming from the United States; most of them have either come from a region of the Middle East or from Europe.
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I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
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At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. (1 April 1939)
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I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."
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Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.
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The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert the second-rate merely because it happened to be recondite.
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Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.
