George Washington Quotes
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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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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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.
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I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.
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One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
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Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.
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I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.
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There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.
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Discipline is the soul of an army.
