George Washington Quotes
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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That's hot.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.
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Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
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Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.
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A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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I finally understood that the half page of code on the bottom of page 13 of the Lisp 1.5 manual was Lisp in itself. These were 'Maxwell’s Equations of Software!'
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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.
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We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
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For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.
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In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
