George Washington Quotes
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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I am fascinated by Omega's history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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Cien hombres, juntos, son la centésima parte de un hombre.
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It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.
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I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it.
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It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
