George Washington Quotes
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
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A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
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One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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There's a kind of immediacy that comes with being constantly connected that I don't really relate to in my generation.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
