George Washington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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I think it comes very naturally. It’s wonderful to be light and informal rather than aloof and indifferent- (On his personal camaraderie with his co-stars).
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
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Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day
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I have a horrible sense of direction.
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The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.
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What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.
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There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.
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I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
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We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
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The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
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I'm nervous about moving away from my family. That's one thing that I'm really scared of, but I feel like it'll be good for me to live on my own for a bit and really knuckle down on what I really love and study.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.