George Washington Quotes
The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.
Quotes to Explore
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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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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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.
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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched and full of different voices starting at different notes and sloping down to other different notes but all weaving together in a rope of sound that's sad but not sad and slow but not slow and all singing one word. One word.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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I used to be really nervous to perform in front of people. I would cry.
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).
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The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.
