George Washington Quotes
I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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I like to keep my money at the end of the day.
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There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
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Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.
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I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.
