George Washington Quotes
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
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I love being in my 40s.
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
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It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?
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This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz for almost twenty years.
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Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.
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I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.
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Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
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I've been really fortunate in my career to do budgets at all different levels.
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Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.
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Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
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Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
