George Washington Quotes
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.
