George Washington Quotes

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

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• 'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.

  

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• I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.

  

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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

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• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

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• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
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• If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
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• Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

  

  Yancy Butler
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• A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

  

  Gary Zukav
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• I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
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• ..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

  

  Sarah MacLean
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• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

  

  John Ruskin
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• We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.

  

  Walter Scott
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• I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

  

  Joe Shuster
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• The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

  

  George Washington
  • Pride
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  • Capacity