George Washington Quotes
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
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Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
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We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.
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Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.
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I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
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Così è (se vi pare)
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I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
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If it was up to me, every show would start at midnight, and I'd give people the best of me.
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I had a barbecue stain on my white T-shirt.She was killin' me in that mini-skirt.Skipping rocks on the river by the railroad tracks.She had a suntan line and red lipstick.I work so hard for that first kiss and a heart don't forget, something like that.
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One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
