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

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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.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Trying
  • American
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

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

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
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  • Creative

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Right
  • Wait

• 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.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Done
  • Experience
  • American

• That's hot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Hot

• I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Character
  • Play
  • Fans

• 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.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Period

• I've always found the rain very calming.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Rain
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• 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.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Films

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Moments

• 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.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Light
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• Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World

• Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending. I want Bush to decide.

  

  Zell Miller
  • America
  • Paris

• The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Great
  • Different
  • True

• Its easy to have kids, people try to scare you into thinking "oh its hard to have kids" Its not. I have two, and I have no idea where they are right now. Kids are adorable, someone will always take care of them.

  

  Dan Cummins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • World
  • Crazy
  • Genius

• Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • May
  • Death
  • Feeling

• 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

  

  George Washington
  • People
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  • Interest