George Washington Quotes
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
Fleur East -
We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
Gavin Newsom -
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Edmund Husserl -
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln -
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
Olivia Holt -
You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.
Marat Safin
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
Octavia Spencer -
I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean -
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
Sade Adu -
The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
Hampton Sides -
We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
Viktor Orban -
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
Karl Rove -
A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
Garrett Camp -
There is no accountability in soft money. None.
Zack Wamp -
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton -
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
Flip Wilson -
Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
Eddie Redmayne -
At the end, there was some unbelievable plays. It really took my breath away.
Joe Gibbs -
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine -
The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
Euripides -
The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.
Eduard Bernstein -
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
George Washington