George Washington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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It's Friday the 13th. my favorite holiday. Keep it weird.
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'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '
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John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.
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Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
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Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.
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It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.
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Anyone trying to resist developments and persist with political agitation in the old way would not survive in the society ruled by the netocracy. He or she would look like a despicable information-tyrant. The new conditions of the informational media landscape mean that the plurarchic public is turning its back on the old political stage.
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The prose writer drags meaning along with a rope, the poet makes it stand out and hit you.
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People remember the last thing you did.
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Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond there is light, and music, and sweet companionship; but I may not enter. Fate, silent, pitiless, bars the way…Silence sits immense upon my soul. Then comes hope with a smile and whispers, ‘there is joy is self-forgetfulness.’ So I try to make the light in others’ eyes my sun, the music in others; ears my symphony, the smile on others’ lips my happiness.
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Death...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
