George Washington Quotes
I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.
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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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James Hetfield, I mean, the minute he plugs in his guitar and adjusts the tone knob, he comes up with the world's greatest riff.
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Are the people who run for president really the best in a country of 240 million? If so, something has happened to the gene pool.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.
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I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
