George Washington Quotes
We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
Quotes to Explore
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I've been doing African dance all my life.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.
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An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.
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There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
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That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.
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One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
