George Washington Quotes
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
Quotes to Explore
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
Barbra Streisand
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo Galilei
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
Felix Dennis
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
Tammy Duckworth
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
Yves Tanguy
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
Halima Aden
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
Cam
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
Eddie Marsan
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
Rachel Dratch
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I am heartily glad to witness your veneration for a Book which to say nothing of its holiness or authority, contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
Walter Savage Landor
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Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.
Ogden Nash
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
Jack McDevitt
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The essence of the desert is that you are free to create your own world, your own visionary reality. … Both Burning Man and the Internet make it possible to regather the tribe of mankind.
Larry Harvey
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A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
Emeraude Toubia
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Our staff had an unbelievable effort. We searched under every rock out there and found some real good players late. We went against some really good schools and we didn't shy away. We competed and had some great battles. We took some hits and we won some. The players coming in really feel like they're joining a program that has a chance to go to a BCS bowl and win a national championship.
Bobby Petrino
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I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.
Scott Frank
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There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
George Washington