George Washington Quotes

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

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• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Long
  • Energy

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes
  • Fans
  • Ugly

• Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Law
  • Contract
  • Ethereum

• Explosions are not comfortable.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Comfortable
  • Explosions

• I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Government
  • Campaign
  • Antigovernment

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Judge
  • Individual
  • Guilt

• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Attitude

• This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

  

  Gary North
  • World
  • God
  • Religion

• You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Love
  • Parents
  • Learn

• I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Book
  • Service

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.

  

  Christopher Miller
  • Fun

• The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Long
  • Character
  • Book

• I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Up
  • Important
  • Done

• Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

  

  Donald Miller
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  • Home
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• A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

  

  George Washington
  • Important
  • Character
  • Moral